NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3272, 2 August 1889, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

ENGLISH. London, July 31.' Lord Randolph Churchill, in addressing a meeting at Birmingham said:—A generous concession of popular local gover.iment.witli greater decentralisation, should be made to Ireland, and ho thought the Chief Secretary ought to welcome the overtures in that direction received from a prominent member of the Nationalist party. If the local bodies offered adequate security, England should advance the sum of £100,000,000 toj pay landlords. He promised to stand for Birmingham next election if requested. It is rumoured that Viscount Chelsea, eldest son of .Earl Cadogan, Lord Privy Seal, lias been affianced to tho Princess Victoria, second daughter of the Prince of Wales,

The quantity of whaat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is 1,772,000 quarters and for tho Continent.22'l,ooo quarters. The American visible supply is 12,125,000 bushels.

;. AUSTRALIAN. , Sydney, August 1. Mr W. H, Sutler, Vice President of the Legislative Council, who tendered his resignation owing to a dispute with the Government over the payment of members, lias withdrawn it, in consequence of the House of Assembly striking out the retrospective clause in the Payment of Members Bill,

Mr Oscar Meyer will represent Now South_ Wales at. the New Zealand Exhibition. It is intended to send exhibits of wool, wines, and minerals. Ihe s.s. Lubeck, from Samoa, reports that the Auckland schooner Lancashire Lass was wrecked at Pago Pago harbour. The crew were saved. When tho. Lubeck left everything was quiet at tlie Islands. Rebel and Savant have been scratched for the Metropolitan Stakes. Meijiourse, August 1. Merriwa and Niagara have been scratched for the Melbourne Cup. The Maori football team are passengers by the s.s. Eotomahana, which left to-day. _ The Presbyterian jubilee celebrations have been inaugurated.