NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3427, 5 February 1890, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

ENGLISH. London, February 8, The prospectus is being issued of the Australian Gold Extracting Company. Tho objoct is to acquire colcuial rights to Allock's patent, AllpreSs was charged with stealing £70,000 from the Commercial Bank, Melbourne, At first ho denied his identity, but aftorwards admitted it. Tho shipwrights and engineers of the Tyne threaten to strike for an advance of 15 per cent in wages, Sir J. Vogel, in a letter to the ■Times, argues tliHt p halfpenny internal rate should precede the establishment of au Imperial penny postage.

Sir W. Bullet' and family havo booked passages for Australia. Mr Parnell has requested the Ameriosn league to send over funds to help the Irish party to contest the general election, Mr Parnell's action against the Times has bcon settled. The latter pays £SOOO damages, The Standard fears there will be a panic in the monoy market ! f the Banks do not make the rate of discount effective). It believes a five per cent rate in February will bring gold into ths country from New York and RioJaniero,

The Rev Canon Smith has withdrawn his acceptance of the Bishopric of Sydney in order to remove the deadlock which has arisen.

The dispute between the Rugby Unions of England and Scotland, which has caused tho international matches to fall through for some years, h»s teen settled,

FOREIGN. Lisbon, February 3. . There is a large number of English residents in Portugal in a destitute condition, The Governinontintend to prosecute the Governor of Oporto for suggesting that the English residents should be shipped on lighters laden with dynamite and supplied with time fuses, St Petersburg, February 3,

Baron DeStael,Russian Ambassador at London, has bneii summoned home to report on tho Portugese embroglio, . Russia is establishinga naval station in the Baltic sea, hear Liban, at a cost of thirteen million roubles.

Vienna, February 3, Doctor Bokai, «n Austrian medical man, has discovered an antiseptic for hydrophobia, it contains eucalyptus. SyAKUj, February 8. Osmun Pigini is reported to be marching on Tokar. • : Massowah, February 8, The Italians have withdrawn from Adowa,

AMERICAN.. New York, Fobruary 3.. In consequent of assisstance received from other banks, the National Equitable will bo able to make good its losses, by the' robbery of securities, in' full..