NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3424, 1 February 1890, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

ENGLISH.

London, January 80. The Dock' Company are making arrangements for .the introduction of a Bill next Bession, by which shipowners will be granted the right to discharge their own oargo. : : > Obituary-Lieutenant General 11. A, Logan, 0.E., 67th Regiment. He commanded the 67th in Now Zealand to the end of the "war in 1861, and comumnded the four companies of the 57th, beijig the main body which rushed and took tho- enemy's redoubt at Katikara river,on the 4th June, 1860. A boat from Killean, bound from ; Liverpool to Melbourne,; lost tho second, mate, the crew, and a stowaway while trying to tranship, the pilot off Liverpool. : Sailing freights are reduced by half-a-crown.

Dr Tanner, M.P, .for Cork, has been sentenced to three, months', imprisonment for using threatening language to Mr Barry, M.P, for Wexford 8.. Notice ot appeal was given.

The Western Australian*delegates havo had a favorablo interview with Lord' Knutsford.' Ex •governors General John ; Bramston; C.8., /and Sir George Herbert' .were present. Lord Knutsford promisdd .that the 1 Bill of last session would bo introduced directly V after Parliament, meeting, and said he hoped; the debate on tie: motion for the second reading - would; be brief, as tho question had already been fully discussed - by,; the Committee : of Management it Goldfields, to, whom tbo constitutional'qiiestioiis had been referred last session, with a view to preventing the inconvenience' whioh might, aviso from the division of the colony for land legislative purposes, I The delegates left Lord, Knutsford, feoling that he was highly favorable to granting a constitution to Western Australia.