NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3323, 1 October 1889, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

ENGLISHLondon, September -28. Piince Albnrt Victor is nbout to pay a visit to Bnrmah, The great Firth of Forth bridge is now finished. The will of Richard Pigott, forger of the "Parnell" letters, has been proved under 1.2000. Mrs Georgina Weldon has obtained an injunction against the New York Herald for alleging that sho was married tlireo times and twice divorced. The paper also states that the death oi Mr Weldon, her third husband, about which there were

i circumstances which drew public attention to tho widow, was duo to natural causes, FOBEIGN Rotterdam, September 28. Tho dock labourers have struck for an increaso of 2|d. In consequence of their stoning the police, the latter fired on the rioters, and also bayonetted some of them. Socialists are excluded from the movement. Washington, September 28. A negro riot has taken place at the Priitt mines, Birmingham, a town of die United States. ■The place was set on fire, and in revenge tho white population are murdering the negroes. A force of military has been despatched to tho scene of the disturbance, Rio de Janiero, September 28. R.M.S. Aoraugi sailed for London yesterday,

Australian. Melbourne, September 30. Tartar, Bustlo, and Lady Kintore have been scratched for tho Melbourne Cup. The Government have recoived a despatch from the Colonial Office, stating that it has been deemed inexpedient to alter tho method of appointment of Governors. The Homo Secretary points to the opposition of Victoria, and the probable opposition of Canada; also, to the fact that no representation on the subject has been received from Now Zealand and Tasmania.

Adelaide, September 30. Benzon's book recounting his colonial experiences has just been received by mail, ''The Jubilee Plunger" rotors to the size, bone, and substance

of New Zealand horses, and the beneficial effect of the totalisator on racing in that colony,