NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3507, 10 May 1890, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

ENGLISH. '■■ ■ ' London, May 7. At the request of Sir Saul Samuel, Agent-General for Npw South Wales, the opening of the Mining Exhibition has been postponed uutil July. Three hundred thousand of the Ceylon 8| per cent loan has bora subscribed, the balance (£150.000) has been withdrawn. -

The delegates from Western Australia are jubilant at the report of the Enabling Committee, and consider it unlikely that any serious opposition will be offered to the measure in Parliament.

Commenting on the report, the Pall Mall Gazette arid the, St James' Gazette eondemu the handing over of such a large territory to a handful of colonists. In the House of Commons. Mr Labouchero will movo thattho amount of the property franchise, as provided in the Western Australia Enabling Bill, be reduced; also, that provision for the payment of a pension to UrC, N. Warton, Attorney General, .bo excised. It is considered unlikely that ho will carry his motion. Sir John Pender, Chairman of tho

Eastern Extension Telegraph Company, will confer with the AgentsGeneral on M onday next in connection with tho reduction of colonial oable rates. The Telegraph Conference will meet for the despatch of business in Paris on the 22nd inst. ■ A colliery at Leigh, in Lancashire, is on fire. Three hundred and fifty of the workmen are eutombod, and the work of rescue is being carried on from an adjoining pit, It is rumoured that a valuable discovery of gold has been .made at Dunnode, County Cork.

London, May 8. Mr Chamberlain, speaking at Oxford, said ho had suggested to Mr Gladstone and the Premier that a compromise Bhould be arranged on the Irish Land'Purohase Bill.

The opposition to the Western Australian Bill is increasing, The report of the Committee on the Western Australian Bill will be considered by tho House of Commons on Monday. Mr Morley advises that it should not be opposed to facilitate the departure of the delegates.

It 13stated;that when in. Africa Stanley made treaties with the natives for a route from Lake Albert Nyanza to Zanzibar.

It is reported that Stanely will be decorated with the Order of.a Knight Compandor -of St Michael and;St George,

FOREIGN. Montreal, May 7. The loss of life by the tire at the lnnatio asylum at Longno Point is not to serious as at first reported, and it is now estimated that only forty perished, ' May 8. During the confusion attendant on the lire, some 250 of the lunatics escaped into the woods, and are still uncaptured. One horrible feature of the calamity was that a- number of female p uients were outraged by tho roughs. The damage is estimated at one million dollars.

May 8. The victims at the Longue Po'nt fire were principally females confined in .the'wing set apart from violent patienis, and they were slowly roasted to death. Seven nuns were among those who lost their lives. Two remarkable incidents are mentioned in connection with the fire, one patient having recovered tho power of speech, while another recovered his reason. The. tire was caused by a lunatic firing a cupboard and owing to a lack of water and appliances for giving an alarm the flames spread with great rapidity, St Petersburg, May 8. The process of Russianizing Finland is causing much discontent, which has been further accentuated by. the refusal of the Czar to receive a deputation on.the snbjeot. . Zanzibar, May 7. The Germans have occupied Kilima, situated about one hundred miles inland from the Port of Mombaßsn, on the Buaheli coast.

'-•■■■ May 8. Major Wissman haa released {be British subjects detained at Kilima Njaro. Buenos Atres, May 7, Customs frauds to the extent of 10,000,000 dollars annually have been discovered here, Cairo, May 8, The Egyptian Government accepts the wider conversion scheme proposed by France. Nsw Yobk, May 7. Singer's sewing machine factory at New Jersey has been destroyed ..by. tire, The damage is estimated at one million dollars. ... YtaSiSu, May 7. Twelve baseWeß havfi been drowned by lfiß eljJS&g of a Jerryboat. ' ''.;.. v • ■ Biiili-m, May 7, In the Prussian' House of Lords to-day, General Oaprivi eulogised the services rendered to the Empire by Princo Bismarck. His remarks were received with applause. . Paris, May 8.. General Mirebar,Chief of the Staff, will be appointed to the supreme command ot the French armies in theevent of war, Ho is about to underi'ate >W of. i|)b'nlal wi&y. '*'.*■■ '

'file intelligence hit .been, received that the King of Dahonioy has agreed to release>tb'o Frenpli pnsonora. -"