NEWS BY CABLE.
ENGLISH. - London, July 24. A Colonising Committee has asked to be reappointed next session,
The Paris correspondent of the Standard states that France has offered the Pope an asylum and promised to restore his temporal power, but the Pope declined, fearing to foment war,
The Australasian Electric Light Company will amalgamate with the British Company. July 25. Several Irish public bodiesareinviting Her Majesty the Queen to visit Ireland in the spring, It is reported on the Exchange that a new Queensland load will, shortly be offered. The New Zealand conversion loan for the purpose of paying off the old 5 per cent debentures is expected to be placed on the market in October.
The Times-Pavnell Commission adjourns over the vacation term. Sir Henry James commences his address on October 22,
The Australian gunboat Whiting was launched at Elswick yards in the presence of the Shah of Persia. The Earl of Fife has been created a Duke under the same title.
The three men missing from the Lufra have been rescued.
The return presented to Parliament shows that the Queen's savings put of the Civil List amount to a million and a half, besides her private fortune, which is derived from legacies and other sources.
Before the Times-Parnell 'Commission to-day, an accountant expert desposed that the deposit of & 94,000 of the Land League Funds was unexplained, this amount includes £76,000 of the fund of the Ladies League. AMERICAN. New York, July 25. Owing to Ctonin's murder the Olaiwia-Gael has been split into two parties.
FOREIGN.
Pais, July 24.
New Zealand has been awarded a gold medal for her exhibits of wool. The decree of outlawry has been issued ugainst Genoral Boulanger. Berlin, July 24. Germany has withdrawn from the treaty of 187G with Switzerland, and the Swiss are being expelled from Germany, July 25, General Browsavt von Sohellendovf, Prussian Minister of War, speaking at Koenigharg stated that fears of a European war were unfounded, and there was no prospect of peace being disturbed.
Vienna, July 25, The Austrian army has been increased by nine thousand men, Belgrade, July 24.
Germany and Austria have jointly urged ox-King Milan to assume the Eegenoy of Ssrvia himself, Russia is actively opposing the suggestion and has oflered to guarantee armaments to her partisans if they will rebel. Brussels, July 2D,
Bolgium has voted ton million francs for the construction of a railway uniting the lower with tli« upper Congo for the purpose of enabling the traffic to overcome tho obstacle at the Yellala Falls.
Athens, July 25,
The inhabitants have expelled the Turkish authorities from Vaoios and Cidonia in Crete and burned the archives. The peasant population are taking refuge in Belyuio. It is expected that unless Turkey concedes the demands of Crete, the two parlies now opposed to one another under the, names of" barofoots" and "hnvrcsack" will coalesce and declare for annexation to Greene,
Cairo, July 24; General Grenfoll will attack tho Dervishes in force in a week,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3267, 27 July 1889, Page 2
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