NEWS BY CABLE

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 382, 10 December 1889, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE

ENGLISH. Londok, December 7. Preparations are being made at Plymouth to welcome the officers and men of H.M.S. Calliopo on their arrival, Mr Ghidstono has had a narrow escape of being involved in a railway accident, A bridge near Hawarden fell immediately after a special train convoying Mr Gladstone had crossed it. Mr Plunkett, (he well-known Irish Resident Magistrate, ib dead, , Lord Sherbiookehvours Australian federation as the precursor of Imperial federation,

Sir A. Clarke speaks at'tha close of Earl Carnarvon's lecture on Tuesday

upon the mutual duties of England and Australia with regard to defence. ;'tio considers theso Untie a consist of readiness to expel the French and also tho Germans from tho Pacific,' and evon to annex Java, The Metropolitan gas stokers endorse the netiou of the South London gasmen, affirming that a higher rate of pay is preferable to sharing profits. Messrs Peto, contractors, are offering their workmen a quarter of a share in the profits if they will agree not to atrike, Pickets have been. stationed .in, many quarters of London, and the polico aro guarding the blacklegs. The prospectus has been issued of tho New Zealand Petroleum and Iron Syndicate Ta'ranaki, capital £35,000, / ' ;; Boulanger is about'; to start on' a

lecturing tour in America. 'The will of tho late Mr W. Westgarth has linen proved at under £145.000, Ho leaves' £2IOO to charitieß and £IB,OOO in other, minor legaciea, Putsch, Doehling and Co., Australian merchants, of Aldermaiibury, R. C, have filled, liabilities, £60,000; assets, £117,000, T>y attribute their bankruptcy to depression of trado in Australia, tho action of Vhtoria in raising tho Customs dues, and losses in their Sydney business, "foreign

Pacts, December 8, A Supremo Naval Council is being created to control the Minister .of Marine, Zanzibar, December 6, Bruin Bey received injury to one of his eyes by his fall and is bleeding at the ears, hut it has beon ascertained his skull was not.frrctured as at first supposed, • Capetown, December 7. Tho R.M.9. Aorangi sailed for New Zealand to-day, . • ,; Lisbon, December B,' Dom Pedro, ex-Emperor of Brazil, has arrived at Lisbon, He denies that he abdicated, and repudiates the allow, ance granted by tho Republican Government, '

AMERICAN. New York, December 7, Jpfferson Davis, ex-President of the Confederate Btalns, died of malaria induced by a chill. There is geueiial raourningin the South, The Secessionist leader on his deathbed expressed the hope that his body would be buried on the site of White Houso,Richmond the capital of the Confederacy. ,

• Deooraber 8. The New York Herald asserts that a Catholic Bank is being formed under the auspices of the Vatican, with a capital of twenty millions, Tho head quarters are to be in America, with branches in Italy, London, Australia, and elsewhere, The Duke of Norfolk is mentioned as the President of the English branch,' The statement is looked upon with doubt, and is not believed to be authentic The body of Jefferson Davis is lying in state at New Orleans, His family is destitute, and a fund is being taised for their support.