NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3445, 26 February 1890, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

ENGLISH.

London, February 24.

H.M.S Goldfinch, which is to rephce the Raven on the Australian station, has passed inspection, and 1 will go on a ten days' cruise before sailing. During a firoat a chemical works it Greenwich, a thousand casks of potroleuin were burliod, and great damage was done.

A despatch from Major Pinto, dated Bth January, states that the whole of the Shirt district is again under Portugese rule. In the House of Commons the debate on free education was resumed by Mr J. Morley,iu the absence of Mr Gladstone. He mentioned that endowments were promised to Catholic schools, but withheld from church and dissenting schools whom tbo latter educated the children of other sects. This statement caused much comment.

FOREIGN. Warsaw, February 24. A systematic practice ■of babyfarming lms been discovered in this city.. It is alleged that 76 cases of infanticide have been unearthed. Paris, February 23. A great outcry ia being raised at tlio proposal to engage Sarah Bernhardt to represent the Virgin Mary i in the next Passion play at Ober Ammorgau. The date of represeni tatiori is fixed for May 20. Berlin, February 21. The number of the CJavtel party in I the new Keichstag will probably not i exceed IGO.' They are appealing to' • the Clericals and Radicals to unite , against the Socialists, whose poll in j the Kingdom of Saxony has increased . by 87,000, Here von Pnttkiunmer j has been returned. i It is expected that the Labour 3 Conference promoted by the Emperor i William will assemble m April, t Sofia, February 24. 1 Russia is demanding from the i Bulgarian Government payment of all arrears.. ' i The Jjanderbank of Vienna has ' offered tlio Government a loan of „ fifteen million francs,

AUSTRALIAN. Sydney', Feb 24, Tlio man Andrews, reported to be (lie sou of an English earl, who shot a clothier named Bavtlott in Kingstreet last November, has been sentenced to death. The Hunter Elver is 80ft above the ordinary level, and' Maitland residents are leaving their homes fearing a flood. All business in that district is paralysed. Reports of Hoods attended with loss of stock and great damage are coming in from the country districts'. Adelaide, Fob 25.

The Government has decided that South Australia will be represented at the Universal Mining Exhibition to be held at Sydenham in the summer, Bbisbakk, Feb 24. Bain is' still general ovor the greater part of the colony. Flour is selling at £7O per ton at Croydon.

BURSTING ofa KESB3YOIR. Serious Loss ot Lite. • ATown Submerged. Washington", February 24. A reservoir tlireo miles long and tbreo quarters of a milo broad burst at Preacott, in Arizona, and 40 people were drowned. It is feared the town of Wickenbarg, 30 miles away, is in danger of being overwhelmed, Later, Water irom tlio burst dara at Prescott submerged tho town of Wickenbei'g, and tho whole of the townfolk havo perished,