NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3476, 3 April 1890, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

LoNDON.'March 31. Sir Graham Berry denies the statement that the Victorian loan of tvro.millions mil bo placed on the market shortly.

■The returns for the year show the revenue to have been £89,404,000. This is exclusive of" £8,185,000 transferred to local taxation, ' Sir Jamea Fergusson, Political i Secretary to tlie Foreign Office, replying to a question in the House of Commons, stated'that the Government were parleying with the Chinese GovernmentovertheSikkiin difficulty. The question of emigration to Australia remains unsettled, pending the consent of the colonial Governments to the proposed scheme. ■.■ Bishop Barry, formerly Primate of Australians ina critical stateof health, "Captain H Lionel Pilkington, of the 21st Hussars,- has been appointed Commandant at Perth, W. A. April 1, : It is the Eight Bev. Edward Parry, D.8,, Suffrigan Bishop of Dover, who is in a critical state of health, and not Bishop Barry, formerly of Austraha, The reverend geiitleihan,who is GO years of age', was injured by the. upsetting of a bath chair, and in' St Paul's Cathedral on Sunday the Archbishop of Canterbury who conducted the service offered up prayers for his recovery. In the House oi Commons to-day, Mr Cecil Eaikes, Postmaster General, replying to a question, said that preferential rates with the colonies was possible without the consent of the Postal Union, but not to the extent of initiating a penny postage. FOREIGN. - St Petersburg, March 81. Schebrikora, who was arrested for writing a letter to the Czar, demanding reforms in Eussia, has boen released by order of his Majesty, In doing so, the latter remarked that ; the tone of the letter was very bitter. ' The Czar and Czarina inspected 1 the military prison at St Petersburg, [ and gave orders for the release of , sixty prisoners and also that the senI tenoes of the remainder should be ! reduced.

The man who was chosen hy the Nihilists to assassinate the Czar has committed suicide in this city. He left a letter divulging his associates, and in consequence the authorities havfl made numerous arrests. Gener. ally there is an alarming increase of revolutionary symptoms. Paris, April 1.

Private letters received here indicate that five thousand Kanakas are Buffering from leprosy in New Caledonia, The press is complaining of tie delay which has taken place in isolating those suffering from the malady.

Warsaw, April 1. Tho result of the inquiries into the recent baby farming scandal is that the murderess of 75 infants has been sentenced to three years' imprisonment. AMERICAN.

New York, March 81.

The JBesha country, in the State of Arkansas, is inundated to a depth of i fifteen feet, and three thousand of the residents who sought refuge oil 1 the housetops are in a famishing condition, San Fbakcisco, April 2. Me3SH Ohaffoy Bros have engaged Califoinian experts in trait growing to proceed" to their irrigation colonies at Mildura and elsewhere on the Murray river,