NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3418, 25 January 1890, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

ENGLISH.

London, January 23. Mi' Walker, Viotorian Commissioner at the Paris Exhibition, has. died at

Eastbourne, . lu a letter to the press Mr Gladstone expresses the opinion that the action of Sir H, Parkes regarding Federation is apparently judicious, but that ignorance of details prevents him (Mr Gladstone) from pronouncing any positive opinion on the merits of the owe. Doubtless Australia will work its way to a just conclusion, The Portuguese in Now York and RioJaniero are reported to be boycotting English traders. Mr Goschen, speaking at a meeting in London, said that mediation would be ridiculous pending the withdrawal of the Portuguese from the disputed territory. Mr Gladstone 3peaking at Chester, said ho should withold his judgment for the present. Tho" Sportsman" fund for Slavin is closed. The total amounts to £440. Jem Mace is training for a boxing match with Mitchell for £IOOO.

FOREIGN. Paris, January 28. ■ The leaders of the Boulangist party are instituting an anti-Jowish campaign in Franco, Turin, January 23. The Duke of Aosta was buried in this city,

AMERICAN. New York, January 22. Terrible storraa have occurred on the Atlantic, Thirty steamers are now overdue, '

Australian, Mklbouike, January 28. A little, girl named Grace Lloyd, aged 11 years, was outraged and murdered by a farm labourer named Lamber at Greta. The murderer afterwards committed suicide. Two miners named Couch and Davis have been arrested at Sandburst for trying to steal plates from a quartz crushing' battery. Each confessed, implicating the other in the murder ot a night watobman named Trevethick, ' .

The heat during the past ten days has been unprecedented, The titer? mometer is higher than for fifteen years,

Tho Intercolonial Conference of Australian Natives Associations has affirmed the desirability of the Federal Legislature, consisting of a Governor-General and two Houses, tho members of one House to be elected by the Legislatures, and of the other by tho people of the various ooloniss, each colony to bo represented equally, in-one Houso at least. An amendment that the GovernorGeneral bo selected by the Crown was withdrawn. Sydney, January 24. " The Government of New Calodonia have sent an officer to Sydney and Melbourne to ondeavor to arrange for the formation of a syndicate to construct a dock at Noumea and lay a cable between New Caledonia and Australia,