NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3406, 10 January 1890, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

' EWGIrISH; London, January 8.. \ Tho Marquis of Lome considers a Federal Army essential to the safety of; the Australasian, colonies, He also suggests the New ...South Wales should co-operate with' England in framing an Imperial tariff for articles •producible within the Empire. ■ The Federation deputation "to the Premier has boon postponed tint in, Judge Nelligari, Recorder of Deity, lias retired from the Royal Coinmission on li'isli land appointed in 188 G. He disagrees with.tlie excessive rents fixed in order to assist landlords ivhen the question of purchase ultimately comes on. The Pelican Club has exonerated Mr" Abington" from the charge of instigating tho attack en Slavin during the prize-fight in Belgium. It is stated in a Wellington letter to tlio Times that tho- Loyalists in New Zealand are denouncing Mr Dillon.

The Admiralty is about to despatch the Enchantress with sealed orders for the Benbow and .Colobsus, two powerful ironclads now at Gibraltar.' Lord Salisbury regards the late details furnished of Major Pinto's raid as merely an oxpansion. of the accounts of the original incident. He has demanded that Portugal should instruct her officers to maintain the status quo on tho Zambesi, Portugal is willing to comply provided similar instructions are given to. English officers,

' H.M .S. Opal will sbortlybe relieved. Obituary-;-Father Perry, astronomer, He fell a victim to dysentry afterjsuccessfully observing the recent eclipse of the sun.

The Portugese papers have adopted a delimit tone, . ■ It is assertod that the anthoriites it Quillinane, on tlio African Coast, have forbidden British steamers to receive Consul Johnson's despatches unless they are passed through the Portugese Post-office,

FOREIGN . • Berlin, Jauuaty 8, Tho Empress Augasta expired peacefully; the immediate cause : of death being paralysis of the lung. When it was found her strength was failing tbo Imperial Family was assembled. The Empress Frederick is at Romo, but she will be able to return in time for the funeral.

Bismarck attempted to suppress the Emperors' alarmist speech to'tin Garrison'of Berlin,

New Yoiik, Jjinuary 8,

'1 ho Australian system of ballot is being adopted in the state of New York,

St PuTEBsmjRG, January 8. The construction of the great Trans-Siberian railway will be began in the Spring at three'different points. Zanzibar, January 8, Tho Arabs have re-occupied Saadani. Fanaticism is increasing among them. Madrid, January 8. Senor riegaata has finally resigned. Lisbon, January 8.: The remains of the Empress of Frazil have been rs-intei'rcd in this city.