NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3504, 7 May 1890, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

ENGLISH. 'London, May 4, The loss inonrred by the theft ul the Duchess of Edinburgh's jewels, turns out to be trifling. The Asylums Board have requested tho Government to inquire whethei frozen meat is wholesome,

May 5. At tho Telegraph Conforenoe.wbich opens in Paris,on the 15th instant, the German delegates will propose that the principle of tho Postal Union should be adopted with regard to telegrams, that eaoh State shall retain its telegraphic revenue, paying sixty centimes per message to each laud transit. They will also propose there should he an international tariff of 12$ or 15 centimes per word, Germany's proposals are a revival of the union suggested at the Berlin Conference in 1085, and which at the. time was regarded as impossible. FOREIGN. Paris, May 4. The bombardment of Whydah caused a panic among the Dahomeyans. The shelling of the town will bo resumed on Monday unless the prisoners are released in the, meantime.

France has. consented to the conversion of the Egyptian debt on condition that the operation shall not be repeated for 15 years, and that the Powers shall disburse the profits. It is reported that Boulanger telegraphed to President Carnot that ho will arrive on Sundayi accompanied by Hocbofort. His followers are preparing to welcome:him. .His opponents assert that the telegram is a dodge to influence the second ballots.

Boulanger has since postponed the date of his arrival in Paris, May 5,, The Dahomeyans are reported to be mobilising their troops, Two Boulangists have been eleoted for a Paris municipality, St. Petersburg, May 4. The Khan ofMervis.to be displaced in favor of a Russian Governor, A stringent system of passports and taxation is to be imposed on foreigners entering ftussia, Austria assorts that these restrictions are a violation of the existing treaties, Berlin, May 4, General Von Caprivi strongly supports the expansion of the German Colonies. ® May 6. The betrothal of the Czarewiteh to the Princess Margaret is again asserted, Lisbon, May 4, Portugal is prepared to accept arbitration over the Zambosi dispute, Sofia, May 5, Major ■ Panitza is being publicly tried for the late conspiracy to dethrone Prince Ferdinand, Zanzibar, May 5, Herr Krauol aud Mr Anderson have begun their work of delimiting the English and German spheres in Africa, The two Nyanzas., and Uganda are the disputed points, The British East African Company deoliiies to reoognise slavery,

AUSTRALIAN. Adelaide, May 6, A constable has.reported to the Government on the treatment of Macks on the Mission Station in the Northern Territory, accusing the German Missionaries of ill-treating them, He states he saw the missionaries threaten tho blacks with firearms and ride down runaway children with revolvers. Women were ill-used, and cripples of both sexes were allowed to wander where they pleased. He asserts' that the natives who manage to escape from the missions become the worst of, outlaws,

Sydney, This Day

Sir Henry Parkos has received a letter from the Australian and American residents in Johannesburg, South Africa, They give a very gloomy account 'of. the state of affairs in the Transvaal, where work is scarce, and the cost of living high, One of the ' burdens imposed on the residents is the heavy taxation, which is described 88 iniquitous, and the mines are ajgg greatly overrated, Sir H, Parkes, ojjvrcjppndont states that trouble is looming ahead, As the flood water recedes from Bourke, the town is found to be in a most deplorable. condition, The fund for the relief of the sufferers has now reached £SOOO.

Melbourne, This Day, Mr Gillies, Premier of Viotoria, lms received a cablegram from Lord Knutsford, proposing . that the Australian Enabling Bill be modified sons to p'reoludethe phiriese who are British subjects 'frfiin' ijie