NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3274, 5 August 1889, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

ENGLISH. London, August 2, The Presbytery of Edinburgh warmly congratulates tlio Earl of Hopetoun on his appointment to the Governorship of Victoria, Mr J. E. Boelnn, E.A., has been commissioned to execute a memorial tablet of the late Mr W.B.Dalley, of New South Wales. In the House of Lords the Premier

informed Lord Kosebery that the Government considered it inexpedient to summon a conference of the colonies to discuss tho question of federation, lie explained that unless the Cabinet was prepared to set forth recommendations the intervention might lead to misapprehension. Lord liosebery. in reply said that neither Canada nor Australia could

summon a conference to consider a closer union of the colonies to the Empire, and that it was in thepower of Great Britain only to do so. He urged thai the Government should consent to receive a deputation on the j matter in the autumn.

AMERICAN. New York, August 2. The American press severely condemnr the action of the American cruiser in seizing a fisliing schooner in Behriug Sea, FOREIGN, Berlin, August 2, The Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria will arrive here on the 12th on a visit to the Emperor William. Bokhara, August 2, Intense heat has been experienced here, and during the past three days the death of 700 adults lias been recorded. Australian. Sydney, August 8. H.M.B, Orlando has arrived from a cruise in the Pacific. She reports two cases of scarlet fever among the

The Queensland Government favors the proposal of Sir Henry Parkes to bold a Conference respecting responsible Government being granted to Western Australia. The proposal is opposed by Victoria on the ground that delay would be fatal. Sir Henry Parks persists that a Conference is the best means of obtaining the desire of the sister colony.

BnisiiANE, August 2,

Information has reached here that a number of natives at Jlalayta, one of the Solomon Islands, boarded tho trading vessel Savo, and, without warning, shot flndileii, the mate, dead, and cut off tho head of a man named Cooper. Keating, the owner of the vessel, was severely wounded, and subsequently succumbed. The native crew repelled the murderors, killing twelve of their number, Crawford, a prominent mining broker at Gympie, has been arrested onseveral charges of forgoryinvolving over £IO,OOO,