NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3341, 22 October 1889, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

ENGLISH. London, October 19. It is believed that Lord Charles Beresford, who resigned his seat in the Holme of Commons for Marylebone, in order to take command of a wetahip, will be appointed to H.M.S. Undannted. In contrast to Sir Andrew Clarke's opinion of the Zalinski dynamite gun, the naval officers delegated to enquire into its meats report that it is useless fur naval warfare, owing to tho intricacy of tho meclianicism rendered necessary to ensure the safely of those working the gun, The Birmingham Gazette states that Lords TCnutsford and Hamilton have entrusted the Earl of liopetonn, the Governor-elect of Victoria, with proposals for extending the naval partnership oetween England' and Australia, Primarily the proposals are to| be submitted to the Victorian Parliament, and afterward to the other colonial Parliaments.

Eighty per cent of the New Zealand conversion loan will be payable on 2Gth February, It is expected to realise 97. Three thousand miners employed in the Marquis of Londonderry's Durham collieries have struck for shorter hours. Fifteen cliousand more threaten to strike unless better terms are conceded hy the owners,

FOKEIGN Paris, October 10. The Turkish Ambassador at Paris has protested officially against the revival of Voltaire's play," Mahomet," at the Theatre Francais. AUSTEALIAN. Sydney, October 21, During a thunderstorm at Ir.verell in the Northern man named Lock and his wit'o were killed by lightning, Melbouiine, October 21. Tho man M'Carron, who was afressed with his daughter on a clmrg? of murdering the hitter's illegitimate child, under peculiarly aiirocious circumstances, has been sentenced to ten years for manslaughter, and the i daughter to twekii months. A man named MucjiirlaiV) was iound nead in a waterhole where ho had evidently been tin own after being uiHrdered. Perth, October 21. A man named Press has been sentenced to death for killing his mate At Hall's Creek and burning the body.