NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3514, 19 May 1890, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

ENGLISH. London, May 15.

At a meeting of the Congregational Union tho Hev J, Jeffries, chairman of the Now South Wales Onion, referring to Australia, declared the Congregationalism was not keeping pace wtth the inorease of population, tt was influential in the capitals, weak in the towns, and nowhero in the country districts. A federation of the Congregational churches was desirable, and with a view of abtaining certain.objects the Baptists Union ought to join them. The speaker was war oily cheered for his remarks, 1 in the course of winch he made a laudators' reference to . Bit Henry I'arkes. It is understood that the Rev Mr Jeffries has been offered an important provincial church, Tho Pall Mall Gazette protests against the Marquis of Salisbury's intention to surrender to Germauy Bamangwatoland (the size of Austria), surrounding Lake Ngami, in Southern Africa..

May 16. It is-reported that the divorce action O'shea v. Parnell is being se'ttled.

Mr Cecil Raikes, PostmasterGeneral, states that a universal penny Eost would entail a yearly loss ot alf a million.

Mi- W. S, Caine's amendment, oppo ing compensation being granted to pmlicans, wan rejected by a majority of7B. Mr Gladstone, in a letter to the Press, expresses the opinion that an excessive massing of Chinese is a social evil justifying.repression:

Mr J. F. Fox, M.P. forTuliamore, moved the second reading of the Laborers' Bill for Ireland. The Government opposed the measure, but it was carried in a thin House by a majority of 26.

The Irish Tanants Eelief Fund has been closed with a total subscription of £60,000.

Sir J, Pender's proposals are subject to the charge on the South Australian land line being reduced to 25oentimes.

Lord Rosoberry is about to resign the assent of Lord Salisbury to an excessive extension 'of tho German sphere in Africa.

News is to hand that the French missions in Uganda have agreed to co-operate with Germany. FOKEIGN.

St Johns, May 16, Fear is expressed in Newfoundland of retaliation by force over the Imperial action in refusing to submit the lobster question to arbitration. The authorities aro urging the removal of the French lobster factories and a refusal of privileges to the French.

Sofia, May 16. The trial of Major Panitza foi conspiracy has begun, - It is alleged Major Pauitza wai tortured in- order to exact a con. fession from him.

Turns, May 16. By the explosion of an ammunition faclory at Avighaua in Piedmont, fourteen persons wero killed. .