NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3461, 17 March 1890, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

Loot, March 13. Baron do Worms has been chosen Chairman' of : Committee on : the Western Australian Bill. Sir F. Napier Broomo, Sir T. Campbell, Sir VV. Robinson,, and Mr J, Braids-, tou will be examined on Tuesday. Judge Bovill has finally declined the Chief Justiceship .of .Western Australia. Phelan, the Nationalist, is dead;;.,. The South African (fold Trust lias declared a dividend qf 100 per cent. Sir James Fergußson,"replyjng to a question ju the House of Commons to-day, stated that tho Gpverumeut expected, an early settlement of the Newfoundland fisheries.dispute. . TlieHon B, Stanhope, Secretary of Site for Wari mentioned that the arming of. : 'coaling:!-stations' was virtually complete.

. In the House ot Commons to-day, the iufotion of Sir E,, B, Haiuloy, member,, for Birkenhead, favoring more liberal treatment of the voluu[ears, was Carried. "The Government opnijsod thp motion, but., many, of flj> s , p,nd r;l(i|iopirit pai'tie? Vjifced wjtlJ'tUe Swa! 'sj wWw «9 pwnjot-

mgjx a ifptflvjof'' censnre oil Lord Randolfili: Cilujobill for his speech on Commission on the 11th 02 ! March 18. have been experienced on the Mississippi River, and thousands of cattle have been drowned, Arkansas was inundated to a depth of two feet of,water..,..-..„,:-:».•,.„:,,. '."'. "London, Maroh 13. -

Mrs Shiels, » member of the Yibtbrian' Parliament, has had an interview with'"Cardi.ial ,x Manning,who' Stated that tho money subscribed for the Dook Strike had_been properly: expondetl. His Eminence also' remarked that he had absolute confidence iu Mr Burns, and was deliguM;','. the .Ohristiau and civilised sympathy of Australia for the sufferings of the lower classes) • The grain porters haye struck for ail advance of Gd a day. ; The ■; Miners Conference .haye adopted the compromise-agfeed ! to by the Yorkshire colliers, accepting"s per cent increase if conceded at once, if the, masters do not give way a general-strike will take place on Saturday. \ 'Mr Charles S. Scott,' British representatiye at Borne, has been selected, along with Sir J. Gorst, Messrs Hplflsworth, Burnett, and Dale, to represent England at the Berh\Lal)oiir C'onfereueo. : -,;; ] '!;■• '.J(

FOREIGN.

Johannesburg, March 18,

Three of those who jtook part in the .recent riot have beei'i charged with treason.

There is.great excitement among tho, Britisli population of the Trans-

Parts, March 18.' ! A Frenchman out walking crossed the German frontier line near Belfort, and Was arrested by German rangers on a charge ofsrwaching, After being handcuffed the prisoner Vas dragged to Mulbaiison, a town in Elsass-Lothringon, Germany, on the 111.