NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3474, 1 April 1890, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

\:s' 29;f The 'Committee inquiring into the granting of autonomy to Western Australia has adjourned until April istb. Inspector, Hare, •who captured AUpreag.fllaiii a 'wMioi iciiriiig r . the defaulter.

The Maquis of Salisbury has left for Kioe for the benefit of hie health. Yiscount Deerhurst offered to pay 5s in .the £, but his oredito refused to accept '"> / ! i \ "The Standard s'ayiftliat the "situa-' tion, behyeeu .Buflsii and China regarding .the/ Chinese frontier is critical.

■ Lord Balfour, of Burleigh, is mentioned as, likely to. succeed Lord Cahingfdh as Governor of New Sonth ffalesi,;;.;'''; v: '' '"' /:/ The Committee on the Western Australian Billwill probably recoin* mend that it be. allowed to proceed. ' : Sir ! Fi Eoberts'has been appointed Commander-in-chief of ; India for-'-a further term of 12m0riths, \

Tile new education code prescribe! improYea; : teacbing in colonial geography.; '. . .»• '• . • -The ; late rDuko ', ofv'Manchestei deßired to be cremated.' :/ ...•' •

It is currently reported Lord Hartington; \yill; marry; -the •'■Dowager Duchess of Manchester. It has long been asserted in Society circles, tbat be remained single for, her sake.. . f : ' ; FOEEIGN^i ; ' ; ■;'■: '•■■•'■ Berlin, March 29. . Herr D'Alvensloben,. the German Ambassador at Brussels, 1 ' who' was appointed to'succeed Count Herbert Bismarck as Seoretary of State for Foreign 'Affairs, has declined to accept tlio position on the grounds of ill health, , Baron Murchall has therefore been appointed,, and ins selection is regarded with favor, as his programme is of a pacific nature

H.B.H.' the Prince of Wales and his son, Prince George, have left this city on a visit to Coburg. ..Prince Bismarok lias finally de-' oliued to be created Duke of Laaeuburg, . -■■■ ■ Prince Bismarck left to-day for his home at Fredorictalie, The railway Btatiou was orowdoclwith diplomatists and generals of-the. army, but the populace wore lukewarm in their demonstration. ;. . Pauis, March 29. The French press report' that the Emperor William of Germany is suffering from a nervous malady, and has been ordered to take a sea Voyage for the benefit of his health, Behun, March 29; Count Herbert Bismarck has been decorated,.and Prince Bismarck pensioned, The latter is completing his memoirs, Marohßo. It is alleged that the Emperor purposely worried Bismarck into resigning.. ' ,Now that Count Herbert Bismarck has resigned, the German press bitterly assail him, and some of the .papers go as far as to taunt him with being the author of the German diplomatic defeat over the Bamoan question, They regard the result of the recent Convention as a blow to German prestige in the Pacific, The Deutsche Tageblatt dosbribes him as an addlehead, * .A, sensation has 'been'caused in Berlin by the alleged discovery that the liouso of the wife of a Government official, holding a good position, has been the sceno of disgusting orgies, which' were attended by persons of high rank. -It is said young ladies of position have been ruined there. Pabis, March 29,

Meira lias been received here thai tbo French troops have defeated tin Dahoineyans in another engagement,

, AMERICAN. . : New Yoke, March 28. ' Further, reports:of the cyclone experienced along the loft'bank.of the Mississippi, states that the railway station at Louisville was swept bodily into the Ohio River. Two thousand houses were levelled to the ground, and .trains and trams were blown off the tracks, Owing to the houses being wrecked the city was speedily,in jflames, at many ', points, and numbers of unfortunate residents w> were unable to escape from the debris were burnt to death, A party of Scotch tburjst farmers and soveral Epglish travellers were killed, The'' metropolis of Illinois is destroyed, engulphing the Catholic Church, which was full of refugees. The low lands of Arkansas and Mississippi wero flooded and hundreds drowned,

1 ■■< March'29. The tornado effected all the Western States, : andwas:felt;worßtin.the. Ohio Valley. At Indiana the cyclone swept everything 'in its path for a width of 500 yds, and the towns of Bowling Green/in Jaiersonville and ; Newport suffered greatly from the tornado and flqocts. The mortality at Louisville is estimated at iinder one hundred) and the lqss of property" at two millions.'.

Washington, March 29.. The cyclone, whioh was of the combiiidd .nafure ot a; tornado and snow blizzard, ploughed a track from Nebraska to New York, 1114 miles long, and a third of a mile in breadth. Amongst other towns Nashville, capitalof Tennessee, suffered severely, The storm was predicted by the weather bureau, but the populace were incredulous. The embankment of the Mississippi is yielding, and a fearful flood is expected. The mayor of Louisville, where the damage was very heavy, 'stateii that outside relief is not needed. ".' ' '■',' According to later news,tiie town of Bowling Greeij escaped damage, and the mortality elsewhere js' really slight! '"■'■' '■''' ''■''■''.