NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3266, 26 July 1889, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

ENGLISH.

London, July 23. Sir H. B. Lock and family will leave Melbourne on Novouiber 16th in a special steamer for the Cape. If the,,Earlof Hopetoun, his successor, has not arrived by that date, Sir William Robinson will act in the interregnum.

The Earl of Hopetoun has entertained the Shsli of Persia at his estate in Linlithgowshire, A fine collection of British pictures will bo shipped by fi.M.S. Eimutaka for exhibition at the Now Zealand exhibition. Mr Parnell informed Hie TimesParnell Commission to-day that it was his belief that Egan took the Land League books to Paris. Mr Parnell refused tj authorise the President of the Commission to examine the accounts of the trust funds, Tenders for the Western Australian loan of LIOO.OOOat 4 per cent, with a minimum of LlO4, were opened today, The loan was successfully floated at an average of Lloßlss. Sir Cecil Bailees,'' Postmaster General, will shortly issuo a number of threepenny post cards, chiefly for Australia.

FOEEIGN. Calcutta, July 24. The Indian Native States will contribute 80,000 troops for Imperial defence, principally cavalry. Zanzibar, July 24,

An important dervish who reached here states that Etnin Bey is being deserted by his British followers, also that other adherents are wavering in their support.