NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3464, 20 March 1890, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

■- ENGLISH. Losim, March 17, Mr Cecil Rt\ikcs, tho PostmasterGeneral, replying to a question asked by Mr Henniker Heaton in the House of' Commons to-day, stated that it was impossible to establish penny postage with the Australian colonies without interfering with the postal Union. March 18. Dr Strangways, in a lotter to the Daily Chronicle, objects''to'limiting the 'area ol .Western-Australia, and considers the!proposed money clauses M the : Bill:will, cause, continual 'friction Svith the Colonial Office. • %he; Tory Association .of Paddiugtoii, for which district Lord E. Churchill sits,,.has : ..censured his speech during the Commission debate, The Postmaster-General .stated England is not likely to attempt to introduce'an universal peuny postage without consulting the wishes and interests of the colonies.' " ■ Lord Salisbury propose a vote for the relief of the starving inhabitants of the Soudan. The Duke ofCounaught's speech was'receiYed with great enthusiasm. :,' London, March 18, Tho Berlin correspondent, of the My' News roports that tlie Emperor has:.■ accepted Prince Bismarck's resignation, but will.not allpjy .Count. Herbert Bismarek'tO retire pehilii)g ! a ! settlement of present dillloullies in tho Reichstag;.'.'■' ..'■ ■■ • '■■' -.'■•' '"Lprd.Salisbury discredits the statement "that Consul Buohauaiiiias hoißted the, British ensign..in the Shire district and thinks it probable the flag has merely been foisted on some vessel in the river. j

..' FOEEIGN.' ' r ' y ' ii] Pamh, March 18, The programme ot<the now Go.; vernment formed by M. de Freycinct is.coneidsred to be colorless, •. >;■ 'M.' 'de' Proyeinet commands a jority of one hundred.- ■■ JJußiiiN, March 18. .-It is reported in the oiiy'to-day that Prince Bismarok Las resigned all his offices. .:. -WflK-iwif, r..;; ■■,;,,:;■'., : . Lisbon, March 18, : .'.'Major Pintb'has'ljeeh infracted* to proceed to MossaraedeS, .a, .Portugese colony 170 miles south oFßeriguela, j iMe is great dxciteinM mi the hoisting-of the British flag at- ShireY j»tl»«tta»befiMqutryiv ; v

~~~ ..rSlMarclip against tWlffistii bffio'ißritisMag iu Shire bupd ill fopibly oppolpi Count Tisxa, has refused' Ho' introduce the Kossuth Bill. -■'■

Oabui, March 18. incursion -over, tho Afghan iron-

Cacclutha, March 18. '"*A"fuWrWs''6btalne^ublility-I l o' the effect that the Ameer of Afghanistan has been killed, together with several of his mtourupe, and that many others bad escaped to Persia and Bokhara. '

AMERICANWashington, March 18. „ During a fire at Indianoppjis, in •ludiaiia, pled l.ll.i(J The sentence of twelve months* imprisonment on Sullivan forfighting Kilrain has been quashed by tho Court of Appeal.

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Sydney, Match 18. the Victorian Government ha given permission ,lp a .number ,of;th Irrigations'lfrusk -to' thd Murray lliver,' Sir H. Parkes the Premier, is protesting \ against i being allowed, on the ground that i is a,, breach of intercolonial objige Melbourne, March-18. The Premiers of the Australia colonies-are-"negotiating with th Eastern Extension. Gable Compaq for a substantial reduction in English cable rates, The company have submitted a scheme for a tariff, of 45., per ™d, f cpnd|ionally ithatf-the colonies; ~teetihe annualreceipts;based pn the average of the revenue for the last three years, aud also continuous service and freedom "from competition.for eleven vear. The guarantee to s be cojitmfed olilyJone;\uipnth> fiifthe cvenT'of' co'mnimiiSition' Being "totally interrupted. Under this proposal the maximum liability of the colonies, even if there is no increase in traflio will be £IB,OOO annually, exclusive of existing subsidies, The Victorian Government is net 'favourably disposed-towavd the scheme, as they consider the terms too favourable to the Company.'l ; i<r'lup? ,A J Admiral Bcott,'iii the course of an interview.,with, the for, Defence, said he tiatj no .objection" to local officers joining .the, Imperial karsliips for short periods,'.when accommodation could be provided for them, The Hon. J. Bell, suggested ( ia larger number of colonial cadets ' should be received in the Navy; also that a shani light 1 should tiß arranged on arrival of the five.Australian . cruisers in. August, i .;,•.',,',

Bbisuase, March 18,.

ji/Asbotttokas" been washed ashore containing a; letter; dateduOctober last, stating that the barque Fmdby, Captain Mitchell, witli ■'&■ 'cargo'- of coal, was in a waterlogged, condition and her cartoon fire. ,'"' "- ; '"' Extraordinary;, landslips have oqcurred at "Rosewood, a station on the Southerniand Western..Railway, 85 miles south west of here. Large areas of land'• iiioVed r bodily, and; numerous houses ..were-, destroyed;. Several farms liave beeii ruined, arid fissures from 10 to. 20; foot deep-rent ■i'uV the earth, >Thb residents of the township fled in terror, 1 ./'-but"no fatalities are reported. ■