NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3485, 15 April 1890, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

ENGLISH. London, April 11, The rcviseil regulations respecting (he grunting of Imperial Commissions do'nut increaso the number of crlonial commissions, or givo greater ■facilities for obtaining them, By a' tiro at Baron Bothschild's mansion, at Waddesdon, near Aylesbury, Buckingtiamsbiie, a painting by Gainsborough, valued at 110,000, was destroyed.

Viscount Peerhurst, ,who was adjudicated a bankrupt in February, lias mndu satisfactory arrangements with his creditors,

The Duke of Cambridge has invited six or twelvo Victorian riflemen to take part in tlm lloyal Tournament, which opens on July 1,

April 13. Tho opening of the new town of Tipperary occasioned by tho evictions from Mr Smith Barry's estnte, took place to-day adtntdat great enthusiasm, The ceremony was performed by Messrs M. 'Dantt and. O'Brien, Tim old town of Tipperary is now practically deserted, Lord Deerhursb offered his creditors ten shillings in the pound dowii, and the balance when ho succeeded to his title, The massacre of two Portuguese officers and 150 native soldiers by the MakoWos in, february has been confirmed.

| The Victorian loan is quoted at a premium of 1 per cent, The Economist asserts that Victoria is suffering from a financial crisis. The export of gold has diminished, and the management of the Treasury is reckless and incapable nnd would not bo tolerated in a private firm.- The-dwindled surplus and tho deficit in tho railway revenue prove that the public works of the colony are unproductive. Bjr 0. and Ladj HallHaye eaUod fdrAißttalfa.