NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3515, 20 May 1890, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

ENGLISH. London, May 17, It is reported that among the birthday hoQOurs,the .Mayor of Perth, W.A., will be created a Knight Bachelor, and Sir Thomas Cockburn Omnpbell, one of the Australian delegates, a Companiou of St Michael and St George, Mr Newton, a solicitor, has pleaded guilty to achargo of being concerned iu a conspiracy to defeat the emls-of justice by inducing witnesses against those connected with the Cleveland street scandal to quit the country. Sentence has been deferred. Tbo Marquis of Salisbury insists that the-Zambesi and Shiie' rivers shall he international highways, and that England should not undertake territoral obligations beyond her strength.

MrH, M. Stanloy is bethrothed to Miss Dorothy Tennant, an artist. In the House of Commons, Mr Hownrt Vincent has given a notico of motion in favor of Imperial Peder. ation.

Replying to a question, Sir James Forgnsson repudiated tie surrender of any portion of Atrica to Germany. In court, Mr Newton, charged with conspiracy in connection with the West End- eca'ndals, stater) he was innocent of the charge of levying blackmail, His cletks were discharged from custody. In the House of Lords, the Marquis of Salisbury, in reply to Lord Rosebery, said it was not true that Prince Bismarck had insisted on England joining the Triple Ailianco, and added that tho relations with Garnnny bad been constantly of a frionijly nature, Referring to the dispute with Portugal, ho mentioned that parleying hap! pot yet finished, hut Portugal must take the consequences if sho refused to iqcognise the freedom ot the Zambesi and Shire rivers,

Mav7. A Bill introduced by Mr B. A. Yorburgh, member for Ches:e, to prevent tbo sale of frozen meat imported from the oi her colonies as meat killed in British Isles, has btoi withdrawn. . A conversazione was held at Guildhall last night to eelebrato the jubilee of the penny postage system in the United Kingdom. The gathering was a brilliant one, nmongi-t those present'being-the Prince of Wales, 'Sfr P, A. Isaacs, Lord Mayor of London, and Ppcil Postmasterdije'nerali

Jpfpnj?, May I?. The Government J>avo Uispovered tw-ntyo.;: iv|f^tp re .l the United States jhrOiigu " flxleo '. fln f| steps are being 'taken- to send them' back to China. May 18. ' The Behving Sea difficulty has been settled on a basis of close arid indemnity ,to. bo paid by,eealorß captured during uucli season. One million American. workmen have signed a petition to the Czar requesting him to improve the administration of tlio penal establish,me»fe io Bjb'ei-ja,

Constantinople, May 17.' t! 'l'ho Kurds and Turkish insurgents in Armenia have murdered a number of Christians and. burned their churches. Rio de Jameibo, May 17, Spveral revolts have taken place in Bnzil and general uneasiness ia fell, General Ftmsesoa, the President, is becoming very unpopular. ■ Pabis, May 17.

M. Rihot, Minister of Foreign Affairs, states that France is quite decided to maintain her rights in Newfoundland, and that the modus vivendi was only adopted in order to avoid a conflict.

The Chamber of Deputies has adopted a resolution relying on the promise of M, Eibot to uphold French rights without any limitation. General Boulanger announces his intention of retiring into private life, The Telegraph Conference has opened at Louvre, The Agents General attended.

May 18. General Boulanger is confident that lis cause will ultimately triumph. - Tho Bonlangist National Committee las been dissolved,

AUSTRALIAN. Sydney, May 18. A cab containing Sir Henry and Lady Parkes bolted in this city this afternoon. Both' occupants 'were thrown out. Sir Honry had both small bftnes of his leg broken, but Lady Parkes escaped with a severe .shaking. The driver of the vehicle was also seriously injured. The Premier is progressing favourably, ' ■.'•' A petition in favour of those sentenced to imprisonment for mutiny on board H.M.S, Egeria is being signed,

It iB reported that a French company \m purchased the interests of a leading English trader in .the New Hebrides. .

Mayl9. Tho Daily Telegraph does not believe either the Governments or the Parliaments of the colonies will bo so fatuotoiiß as to lend tbemßelves to Sir J. Pender's conditions for a reduction of the cable rates.

Melbourne, May 19, A man .named McUrath, suffering from religious mania, murdered a man named Ealzliffin Flindera-streer, and slightly wounded the constable who arrested him,

BANK OP NEW ZEALAND. Mr Mean's ReportLondon, May 17. On the publication ef Mr D. Hean's report on the position of the Bank of New Zealand, the shares fell three quarters per cent,but are now steadier. The latest quotations are-Old shares, £5; new, £B. A large gathering of shareholders met at the bank to-day and agreed that it was desirable thai an immediate transfer of the head office to Loudon should be made, and that additional strong names should be placed on the Lonuon Board; also to write down the capital by the ascertained deficiency, and place the surplus value of the sites and premises in the colonies to the reserve lurid. They also agreed that the dividends should be confined to. a moderate amount until a strong reserve fund has been formed, and that a meeting of shareholders be called- to; elect a new Board when Mr Hean reiurns to London. There is no approach to a panic, and the Directors are prepared tomeofcanyemergeno). Li an article on the report the Standard states that the banking business is still excellent, Ji.d asserts that most of the ourrent profits' for tlit year have been swallowed up in vain efforts to cope with depreciating ol the property.

A NEW COUNTY. ■ • _i_ Important Meeting at huna(From Our Own Correspondent,) A public meeting was held in Parsons' Hall on Saturday, 17tli iiist, to discuss County and otliei matters. The Hall was crowded with ratepayers, Mr Matheson, whi was voted to tlio chair, in a brief speech explained the object of th*meeting, and called upon Mr Yon Sedin to give the ratepayers semiidea of tlio receipts and expenditure by the County for the past year. Mr Von Redin stated that the receipts and expenditure oy the County foi the p»Bt year from the district was ab follows; Receipts, £069 18s 10s; outstanding rates, £216 lis 3d; total, £BB6 Ss Id, -Expenditure— Eketulnma street contract, Kelliher, £ill 17s 2d; kerbingsiime, Daniells, £73 lis 6d; other accounts, £47 5s 9Jj total, £532 15s fid. Tirannw —Britt's No, 1 Contract, L 448 14? 6d; Britt's No. 2 Contract, L 95; Dawson's Contract, L 14 8; Engineer's and other expenses, L 39 Os Id; total, L 730 14s 7d. Estimatea for next year, |Lj)SGOs 2d. To meet thai there was a credit balance of L 586, leaving a balance The ChairmHn said th»y were much obliged to Mr Von Kedin for bis explanation, but he failed to see tin benefit of two bodies for that district The main object qf calling the meeting was to discuss the question ot forming Eketuhuna into'a separate district,

Mr A, Anderson said the Eketn buna district rateable value, LIOO,OOO, n( it }d rale, gave about L4OO. Thai aipount had not been expended in the district, LIQS only had been spent there. With the roadman's pay it would only amount to LBOO, bo that the County had now belonging to the district LIOO.

Mr Yon Redin replied that there had been L6O Bpeut on tho Alfredton read. The. Chairman: We all agree that Mr Von Red'n has done ]\\s best for the district; but wo lyabt a remedy. Mr Anderson said there were three ways of getting out of the difficulty, Fiist, by erecting a toll-gate on the road. Seco.d, by forming aseparato county, including the Alfredton and Maui'icevillo districts, Third, ioro> ing a distriofc road, by haying tho main roads taken irom the County and handed oyer to tho Eketahuna Road Board, Ho was pt in favor gf the first tiflles'p njl other nlejhotjs failed, fle t|ien rend olaijaji fjf (j t]ie Counties Act, which that | threß'flfths of the ratepayers cool'l I tauke pketahuna Into a county, Mr Sininiu!?; ff l> o then spoke, was in favor of a County. ■The Chairman: It would cost a large amount of money to get this through the Houj?. '■ Mr B-yllsa t I think {haHfaflCffot a reduction of ratjis it would ho better than the formation of a County,

. Mr Simmons': The Eketahunn Road Board should have the control of the road* end rates in the <Jiotrist.

Mr W. Uaylisa: If we take over the main road we shall have to maintain the Alfredton road, or part of it. Mr Von Bedin: There will bo about 88 miles of road to muintain; the number of ratepayers are 447. Mr Alex Anderson proposed, and Mr Bright seconded, that the Road Board of Itketahuna take steps to approach the County Council, through elause 247, in order- to make the Board's roads in the district county roads. The' motion was put and carried unanimously. A considerable amount of discussion then ensued re the action .of the Pahiat'iu County in not contributing towards the ;ost of maintaining the road, the principle part of the road being used by that body. . A vote of thanks to, Mr Parsons for the use of the hall, arid another to the chairman, terminated the proceedings. A Romantic Story.

A mysterious drowning case, in which there is supposed, to be a tragedy wrapped up, ooourred in Melbourne on April 80th- A boatman of St, Kilda found the body of a woman floating in.tlio .Bay in the ; morning. It was newly and res. pectably attired, and in the pookeT there was a purse, with over £l' in silver. On the finger there was;a wedding ring, and the, doctor ;who made the postmortem said was about twenty-five years.of age, and but for the presence of the wedding'ring on the finger lie would have concluded that she was a single woman. There was no signs of violence on her body, and' the cause of death was drowning, Strange to say, until a week afterwards there was no clue to the identification of the body, though between fifty and sixty people visited the Morgue, with tho avowed intention of desiring to identify the body. Assuming that they were all sincere in their intentions, tho number of women with brown hair, about 25 years of age, 5 feet 2 inches in height, dressed in dark stuff gowns, and imitation sealskin jackets, with money in their.' purses, gold wedding rings and brooches, silver bangles, lit., who are missing from their homes must be quite alarming. It is perhaps only necessary to add that the majority of the would-be identifiers were women. However, seven days afterwards something more' definite was learned. Two men, who had read t the report of the inquest in the papers called at the morgue, One was Louis Lightman, and if his surmise is correct the question as to how the deceased met her death will be more mysterious than ever. His missing friend is a young person named Pauline Levi, who, though only twenty years of uge, had succeeded in makiug herself the principal figure in' a- history muoh moro I'omautio than is usually found in real life. She is a native of Leeds, Eugland, where her parents still reside. Lightman knew her there when she was a child, and after bis immigration to the colony about 1 four years ago, his brother married Miss Levi's sister. Lightman is a cabinetmaker by trado; and soon after ' iiis arrival here he obtained a situation in the Melbourne Tramway ' and Omnibus Company's carriage ; works, where he already obtained ifc : good position and was soon in. receipt of excellent wages. He com- >. municated tidings- of his-success to," 1 'ui'B. brother at Leeds,' and'about*; 1 twelve months ago his brother wrote | out and suggested that he should 1 many Miss Pauline Levi,'who waa 4uite prepared to come to the colon; ; ind. join him. Ho consented, and ■ tifter sending home enough monoy to ' pay her passage out,.he set about ; preparing a home for her, When she 1 arrived in the steamer Iberia, about ; it weeks ago, ho had all hie arrangements made for the immediate marriage. He had taken a house in Bell-street, Fitzroy, and had fitted it up in a comfortable and suitable . manner. The wedding day was" iixed for the 81st Marob, and for ilie fortnight which elapsed between the day of her arrival and that date, ho placed her under the care of a

Mrs Breslau, who resides in Drum-mond-street, Carlton, Miss Levi displayed an unusual laok of interest ut her approaching marriage, but still readily fell in with all the suggestions ivhich wero made by her husband that was to be and his friends. On the day A before the wedding day he gave hetyf £ls to puichase certain necessaries, and on the afternoon of the same day she disappeared from Mrs Breslau's, taking all her luggage. Airs Breslau had no suspicion of the girl, who told her. that she was going to take her boxes down to her futuro home in Bell-street, Fitzroy. Lightman had noticed in the various conversations which he bad with Miss Levi that she had a good deal to say about a certain gentleman, who. had eome out in the ship with her, and had shown her great attention. This gentleman had met her several occasions in the street, and when she disappeared,Lightuian concluded that this gentleman might know some.. • thing of her whereabouts, and he accordingly visited the Coffee Palape, where he had'been told he was lodging. Jn the message book there he found a message to this gentleman in Misa Levi's handwriting, and ascertained that the gentleman had in the meantime changed his lodging!.' He made several attempts totrace tbfgirl but without result, and had just resolved to mako no further efforts in the matter,whon ha read the account of the inquest on. the woman's body, Lightmah is not very clear about the clothes, and as the woman had beou buried before he reached the morgue Jl ho baa not eoeii the body. Ho can* * not account for the weddiug ring, but a strong point ia. that he knesv Miss Levi had a brooch mode from a • Jubilee half-crown, and in the deceased's purse, amongst other coins, there was a half-crown which had evidently been used as a. bjooch, for the marks of the solder which held the pin are-still visible. The police, however, a'j-e now on tho traok, and will make enquiries.' 'tfhe woman's clothes and jewellery will be shown to Mrs Breslau, and efforts will' be raado to find the gentleman who arrived by tho Iberia.

PKU4PQW There 1 are, it appears, an avenrcs of about thirty 'thousand women always tp bp fQuntl in the asylums of England and Wales alppe, ' The Turkish Government hag given £SQO each to the American missionaries, MoDowell and .Wishart, who were plundered by Nestorians. ■ • Tlie o!>es|uut harvest in francs is of highor value than generally supposed; the official estimate for 1888 making the orop worth £1,600,000. The French newspapers jjepjaji, that the dance; as. ; a 'social joy"is doomed, going out of fashion at the > command of 'the wpweu who |ca| Parisian ftcifity

Sootchmen banquetting in London are now entertained with musio of real northern bagpipes played into a pbouogiiph and sent down to London by express, Tho rag'ball at Vienna at tho close of the Carnival season was a great success, and netted £I,BOO for tho poor cf the city. The Duo de Orleans friends ave striving to obtain his release on the •jftmiso of his retirement for a long tew in America. Germans aro horrified to find that the delicious Dutch hams thoy have beon eating are American hams smoked in Holland.