NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3454, 8 March 1890, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

■:•-■ ENGLISH-' London, March 5. The Guardian, referring to the Victorian Divorce Bill, states it was tho implied duty of tho Australian clergy to have refused communion to adulterers and reject their friendship, and deny religious aud social status to too. taking part in tho passing of an unchristian law of. divorce. In conclusion it-would bo better for England to abandon the right of veto. Sir O, Dilke, lecturing at the Cobden Club, said Australia was a model for modem nations, and fow countrieswere more worthy ot imitation,

Mr Sydnoy George, M.P. for Stockport, has given notice of a question asking Baron do Worms to withhold consent to tho Colonial Divorce Bills' until the House of Commons can consider them.

A quarrel ocourred at Baird's private house over tho recent- Smith-Slavin fight, duriug. which Mitchell, the pugilist, assaulted Goodo and Cobwin, two mou connected with the prize ring, with a i poker. Thoy worQ seriously injured,and had to be taken to the hospital, A warrant is out for the arrest of Mitcholl. The railway accident at Carlisle was caused by tho water in the vacuum brake freezing. March 6. Mr O'Brien has been granted extension of time for his appeal in the libel action against Lord Salisbury In the course of the debate on tho Commissioners' Eeport Sir'C. Lswis accused Mr Dillon of going to Australia to avoid being called as aptness, Parnell pays the costs in the Scotch action against tho Times, Tho amount is £SOO. A rumour is about to which not much credence is attached, thit Dr Barry will become Bishop of Durham.

The Prince of Wales lias been reelected Grand Master of the Masonic fraternity. AUSTRALIAN. BmsDANE, March 5. No rock lias baon discovered where the steamer Quetta sunk, and it is considered possible thatsome internal explosion-may have caused the sad disaster, The testimony is uniform as to the very slight concussion; only tremendous grating was heard. The captain remarked that the first intimation of the catastrophe sounded like the bursting of a tank, followed by a grating sound. Sydney, This day,

'H.M.'S, Egiia has sailed on a surveying cruise. It is believed she will visit tho wreck of the Quetta. Sydney, March G,

Ah examination of the v steamer Silik since sho has' been docked shows that she had a mostremarkable oscape from being wrecked when she struck the rock in Torres Straits on the voyage from China here. The third and fourth rows ot tho plates are dented for 18in, and the rivets torn out for 40ft on tho port side, and for 22ft on the starboard side. The dents appear as if the vessel had passed between two rocks wliich had crushed her sides in. It is considered that if tho hull of tho Sikh had- been of iion instead of steel she would have instantly gone down. Adelaide, This Day. Tho captain of the barcmo Gleu. Rosa, wliich went ashoro at Cape Banks in January, has been suspended for eighteen months,