NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3500, 2 May 1890, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

ENGLISH. London, April 29.

Colonel Gri(l!en hue been appointed Presiddnt-elect of the Baptist Union. Major Clarke, Secretary of the Colonial Defence Committee of the War Office, considers that it would cost £50,000 to fortify King George's Sound, and it would require to be garrisoned by one thousand men in time of war. He thinks it would, be better to leavo the Sonnd defenceless than for England to bear the whole of the Cost.

Bofore the Enabling Committee today Sir William Robinson advocated that Western Australia should have control of all lands until the new colony is established. Tho English Church Union has unanimously condemned the Victorian Divorce Bill, acd passed a resolution expressing sympathy with the clergy, April 30.

The Emperor William of Germany will piy a visit to Queen Victoria in the Autumn,

The Paris correspondent of the Daily News telegraphs that a Royalist conspiracy in Paris, to take place on May Ist, bas been discovered. The Privy Council has dismissed the appeal in the case of Shaw, Savill and Co. v, the Timaru Harbor Board.

Dr Barry, speaking at a dinner given at King's College, said his experience in Australia had been a very bitter one, and ho found tho people to bo very crude Sir Halliday Macartney, English Secretary to the Chinese Envoy, in tho course of an interview to-day, said that China insisted on being placed on an equal,footing with the other Powers, and asserted that the agreement with Australia would hare been concluded had it not been for the ten days delay occasioned by. Sir John Walshain, British Minister at Pekin. . ■ . 1 Mr S. H. Parker had an interview with Mr Gladstone with reference to the Western Australian Enabling Bill, Mr Gladstone expressed himself warmly interested in the subject, but admitted that the 'question of reserving territory presented some difficulty. He was surprised at the hostility which was shown up to admitting the Chinese into the colony, At presont he had so many engagements on band that he found it impossible to actively advocate the Bill, but he promised that he would use all his influence in preventing the measure from being obstructed, Sporting critics are pleased with the quality of the new blood contained in the Australian Eleven. Lord Salisbury has informed Turkey that it is impossible to hasten the evacuation of E^ypt, FOREIGN. ; Pabis, April 29. Lord Lytton, the British Ambassador at Paris, has notified the French Government that England desires tho regulation of October, 1889, relative to the salvage -of wreoked vessels, made applicable to Queensland, April 30. The King of Pihomey has stated his willingness to give up the French prisoners whom he holds in exchange for the Dahomeyan prisoners in the hands of the French. Tho French are considering the offer, and it is not unlikely that an arrangement will be come to.

Pabis, April 29.

Tho supporters of Boulanger urge him to return to Paris in order to take part in the labor celebrations, Leading supporters of • General Boulanger have left tows, fearing that if they remaiuod they would be arrested, Latest news from Dahomey is to the effeot that the town of Wbydah has been shelled by the French, Athens, April 30.

Martial law, which wnw recently proclaimed in the Island of Crete, has been abolished.

Berlin, April 80.

Arrangements ore being made for the abolition of the passport system in Alsace.