NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3483, 12 April 1890, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

, ENGLISHLondon, April 9. Tlifl Duke of Manchester's remains have beon buried at Kimbollon, The Queen and the Prince of Walea sent wreaths. \ April 10.. ,'The Victorian loan has Deen well received, and is quoted at a premium oilf. The Standard says it is astonishing that the market of Colonial Stocks continues so strong. A debt of forty millions is a heavy load for a Colony devoted to the suioidal system of Protection, with a slowly increasing ■population. Tho Calliope's men were warmly received at Portsmouth, The ship will probably bo visited by royalty. : Bishop Parry, of Dover, is recover-

ing. ■ MrMatthews, the Home Secretary is condemned for allowing the younj men Davis to be executed.

The brewers are • agitating for a reduction in taxation. : .

Sucoi, the Italian faster, is con■fldent he will get through his task.. Baron de Worms, speaking at Liverpool, said that. the Sugai Bounties Bill could'be carried, provided the workmen support the Government,,

The revised rules respecting the granting of Imperial commissions to colonial military officers came into force on October 1,

Baron de Worm's, replying to the deputation from the .sugar refiners and Trades Unions, said that neither France, Brazil, nor the United States of America had made advances towards signing the Sugar Convention. Great Britain, he added, wasprepared to ratify a treaty, but it must'be remembered that she had not always command of the situation, An Order-in-Council has ' been issued, malting tho Imperial Medical Act apply to New South Wales as well as Victoria. FOREIGN. Rome, April 10, A financial crisis, resulting irom a building mania, is imminent in this city, Paris, April 0, M, Constans has determined to release tho Duke of Orleans, The prisoners taken by tho Dahomeyans are still alive. Berlin, April 10. A high German official deolares that Uganda, Unyoro, and all head waters of the Nile appertain to the English zone in East Africa,

. It is rumored that Alsace is to be neutralised.

St. Petersburg, April 10. The Czar is visiting Poland.

AMERICAN. New York, April 11, Kilrain, the pugilist, has issued an open challenge for fiOOO dollars a Bide, in . the hope that Slam will take it up,

: Washington, April 11. The'Pan-American Congress' has decided to have recourse to arbitra. tion in all disputes except wliero the independence 'ofthe country is concerned.

The Australian ballot system becoming general throughout tl States.

• Ottawa, April 9, The Dominion Ministry propose a renewal of the modus vivendi with the United States in regard to the fisheries.

TELEGEAPHTO. A Serious QuarrelDunedin, April 11, A man Darned John Hunter, alias Stacey, was received in the Hospital to-night in a very weak ' condition from loss of blood, and is. now in a very oritical condition, The man was found in a house, covered with blood, and a woman, Mary MoNaught, with whom he was living, stated that when Hunter came home he brought a man with him, and the two got quarrelling, Hunter being struck on the head with a bottle, When she was making this statement Hunter managed to gasp out that it was the woman MoNaught who struck him, Huntor has p, deep wound on the left side of tho head above the ear, about ono inch auda half in length, and he is now uncoilsoious, An English CandidateAuckland, Aprilll, Mr W. S. Alien, late of Now-castle-under-Lyme, has announced his intention of contesting the TeArota electorate.