NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3377, 4 December 1889, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

, ENGLISH. ( London, Docember 2. < A letter received by Emiii Bey i from the Mahdist General, when the j latter was besieging Wadelai, has | been published. It calls on Emin to i surrender and embrace the Mahdist I religion, promising him highest < honours and protection. ( It is stated that Monsignor Satolli, < reporting to His Holiuess the Pope on i tlio present state of Ireland, denies i the statement that the Government I land purchase scheme involves an i expenditure often millions of money, i FOREIGN ! Berlw, December 2. \ 111 Hie Reichstag to-day, Count : Herbert Bismarck, in supporting ' votes on the estimates for the maintenance of the German protectorates, dwelt at length on the benefits Ger- ' manj had already derived from acting ' in accord with Great Britain. Refer. ; ring to the Anti-slavery Conference now sitting at Brussels, he trusted that the discussion would lead to reducing'the slave trado. Australian. Meluourke, December 3. Tbo Government has decided to offer a bonus on butter exported from Victoria to England. The amount of bonus ranges from Id to 3d per pound, and is regulated according to tbo price at which the article is sold iu the .dome market. THE LABOUR QUESTION. CimiSTCnußcii, Wednesday, A well attended meeting of Farm Laborers was held at Kaiapoi last night to discuss the labor question, A resolution to the following effect was passed:—" That the hbouring classes of Kaiapoi suggest that 9d par hour be the standard price of work and 8 hours constitute a single diiys work: overtime to be paid 9d per hour," SILVER REEFS. Auckland December 8, MrR. Hohba, M, H, R,, has returned from his visit to the Puhipuhi silver holds, He inspected the reefs which are now bein« operated upon, and was much surprised at their size and deliuiteness. He says that although well acquainted with mining at both the Thames and Coromamlel , in the early days, lie never saw 93 ! promising a show of minerals iu a , new field as ho un at Puliipuhi, He says the latter is a wonderful , reefing country, and anticipates spent results when it is properly worked. ) The feeling at Whangarei is strong against the refusal to allow bona tide , prospecting parlies to test the value of [ tho country, and a protest was wired to tho Government by Messrs Hobbs , and R. Thompson, M.H.Rs, The , steamer Wellington, from Wangarei, ■ brought two or three hundredweight of stone to Mr Rutherford's limestone island, to bo crushed there and treated by various processes. The locality of the find is north of No. 3 Block, Puhi. puhi Forest, and on the Tangiapokura river, ten miles from tho Taumaiki railway station,