NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3475, 2 April 1890, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

;vEN6LISE London, Match -81. A sensational scandal in high life is on the tapis, although strenuous efforts are being made to induce the wife to forego divorce .proceedings, The husband is a prominent member of the Government. The warehouse of Lister and Co., manufacturers of sewing silks etc, Bradford, has beon destrojed by fire. The damage is estimated at £60,000, The Victorian loan of two millions is announced. Tenders' will be opened on Wednesday. . . The' St Petersburg correspondent of the Daily Telegraph wires that the Bussian Government are panio stricken at the student movement, which ia ' spreading throughout the country. ..-■ FOREIGN. Si Petersburg, Marchßl. It is stated that'the cruoltiea to political prisoners in Siberia provoked the students' movements. ■ '■.-. Lisbon, March 81. The general election has resulted in a large majority in favor, of the Government. Major' Pinto wisj elected for Lisbon. .'..■.;.''''; Paris, March 81,. President Carrio't to.-day received Miss Mvra Kemble, the Australian actress. '. „ Madrid, March 81. The Biir conferring • universal suffrage in Spain has been finally passed. Buraos Ames, March 81. It is estimated the Argentine wool clips will bo fifty .thousand bales short, but the quality'is superior. Brussels, March 31. The work of excavating the ship canal fronvhero to Antwerp has been begun. Sofia,' March 81,

Bulgaria is arming for an expeoted fray with Servia. The official press is defiant, and boasts they will thrash their enemy again,

AMERICAN. New York, March 81. An American cutter captured the Pathfinder, but Mr Windoni, the Secretary of the Treasury, ordered her release, '.■'■'" Washington, Maroh 81. • It is estimated that the loss of life by tho recent cyolone will amount to 200, AUSTRALIAN, Sydney, March 81, Owiiig lo tlio recent heavy rains the town of Yetman, situated on the banks of tho Biver Molntyre, and 488 miles north of Syduoy, is submerged. Mrs Bchulze and a boy have been drowned.) ■ April 1. The revenue of New South' Wales for the quarter shows an increase of L 51,000, Melbourne, March 81. Twenty per cent of tho residents of Williarastowh have been attacked with influenza. , . The revenue for the quarter shows a decrease ef i 65,000 compared with the same period last. year. Ths fulling off is partly accounted for by a decrease of £BI,OOO in stamps owing to reductions in postage rates. Adelaide, March 81. ' Mr J. L. Toole, the well-known oomedian, and his company have arrived here. He was accorded a most enthusiastic welcome, April 1, An audaoious robbery of £2600 took plaoo yesterday at the counterof the Commercial Bank. The thief got olean away. ■ Owing to the ravages by storm and flood out west, a famine among the settlers is threatened, TELEGRAPHS. (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Chbistcuurch, April 1, . Mr J.D, Lance, M,H, R for Choviot addressed Lis constituents at Amberiey last night, and received a vote of thanks and confidence, In the Supreme Court, in tho case of Pnrcell v tho Eailway Commis? sioners, the jury found for the plaintiff damages £I2OO. . A nonsuit point, raised by Mr Joynt, was reserved for argument. Union of T&iloresses. Dunedin, April 1. At a meeting of the Tailoresses' Union it was deoided to hold 'a conference.of delegates from the various Tailoresses' Unions in the Colony, with the object of federating into one body. It was agreed to admit girls in the hat trade into the uniou, and when they join the membership is expected to be over 1000.- Fifteen pounds was voted to tho of •. the Petone Woollen Mills out on strike, and more will be given if j required, and if necessary the union : will refuse to manufacture the Com- | pany's goods, A friendly sooiety is to j be established in connection with the union, Sensible at Last .. Lvitemon, April I: The f'ustoms authorities at Lyttoltoh took steps to prevent the overjrowding of passengers in the steamers leaving Lyttelton" to-day. Several passengers booked for the SVajhora were transhipped to the Rotorua in constquenoe, . A Horse-liox on Fire. • Hamilton, April 1. t! The horse-box en the Governor's ii special train took fire near Frankton when the train was going at a rate of 85 miles an hour. . Both horses were rather badly burnt before released. The loose . straw in tho box had ignited, and was blazing up around the bodies of the animals. .