NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3335, 15 October 1889, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

.ENGLISH. London, October 18. Sir J. Boekra's memorial bust of tho Eight Hon. W. B. Dalley.of Now South Wales, will be erected in St. Paul's Cathedral in January. The sculling match between Bubear the English sculler, and Neil Matterson, the Australian, is creating but little interest. it present the betting is even. At the National Conference of Miners, it was decided to insist on the eight hours system from January next. H.M.S, Anson, which got ashore yesterday at Kiel, a German naval port, is uninjured, and it is expected she will be floated off without difficulty shwtly. FOREIGN. Belgrade, October 18. Ex-King Milan insisted on the Servian Hegents prohibiting an interview between the young monarch and his mother, Natalie, asserting that the latter was insane. Subsequently he gave way, and the interview took place. Berlin, October 18. The Czar has arrived at Berlin, where he and Emperor William had a long and cordial interview. Bismarck thinks the JRoyalist party of France will support the moderate Republican element, and enable the assistance of tho Radicals to be dispensed with, Tho Czar and his second son, Grand Dub George, met with a cold reception on their arrival in this city. The Reichstag has authorised a loan of 250,000,000 marks, H.M.S. Anson, one of the finest new ironclads in the British navy, has gone ashore at Kiel.

AUSTRALIAN. Sydney, October 14. The Sydney Art Society is arranging to send a collection of pictures to the Dunedin Exhibition. Bmsbams, October 14. The Kockhamptom Wharf Laborers Union have called their men out on strike, owing to the shippors of meat loading ihe steamer Balmoral Castle with non-Union men. A portion of tho crew prevented the latter working, and in consequence eleven of them have been arrested. The Balmoral Castlo will proceed on to New Zealand if unable to complete her loading here, Thursday Island, October 14. Tho Altar ol Heaven, at Pekin, the principal temple in China, which was on fire when the last mail left, wae burned to tho ground. Two men have been arrested, on a charge I of incendiarism.