NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3409, 14 January 1890, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

ENGLISH, London, Janimry 12. The departure of the San Francisco mail lias been postponed till January Uth,

:, The Marquis of Harrington is suffering from a sevcro attack of congestion of the lungs, drought on by neglecting a cold.

The lookout of men from .the tea warehouses has been settled, and a compromise -iirntriged. Tb? London Trades Unions adviso thiit pecuniary Kelp' Should bo afforded to the gaß strikers.' Tliey also condemn the Government for supporting the companies with the aid of the police force. ;'■'

At a meeting of the Council of the i Imperial Institute, over which the Princo of Wales presided, it was agreed to establish a school of modern languages. Professor Max Muller, the eminent philologist,' in an eloquent address, supported the proposal. - William Itignold, uctor, : and his daughter, open in Sydney at Easter in "Nowadays." ■■.';. ■...-.■•• FOREIGN : Si Petersduko, January 11,During, a.--melee arising out of a police raid, on n, Nihilist Club at Moscow, a young woman killed the . chief officer of the secret police of ] that city and afterwards committed suicide,. Akiwerp, January 12;.' The next seties of wool sales take place on January 22. Bight thousand bales are catalogued, including 1100 Australian,

Madbid, January 12, The King of Spain is improving.