NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3531, 9 June 1890, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

BSCUSH. London, June 6, Tho colonies will only be required to provide mnseums at the Imperial Institute. The library, meeting and reading rooms will ha equipped by tho authorities. The Channel. Tunnel Bill was rejected by a majority of 81; • • . June 6. The Shaw, Saville, and Albion Oompnny have purchased the steamer Eangatira, ijapablo of carrying 55,000 parcasPß of fropij miitton. Tho'Neiy Zealand Shipping "Company secured a Bister ship. The Western Australian Bp) will be committed on Monday.' Baron do Worms expressed a doubt. if the instructions to colonial; governors justified them in reserving for Her Mijesty's assent the Bills restricting iijjuiigration, and he thought the retention of clajjse 8 would preoludo any doubt on tho Anxiety is. increasing lest -the Pieipjef should agree to an extension of the German protpptflrstu jti Africa to the frontier of tjie Congo Free gt^te,. i}n.d cpnsent tp Germany .absorbing Fgaroj|iiji/j, giving access to the upper ?f fhe. gaijibesj. The prospect# of an agreement between- England and Germany in East Africa are wavering,' na the Germans decline to budge from the position they have taken up,. In reply to a question,- Sir J, Fergusson said tho Governor of Newfoundland denied that men had been Jrttided from the French warship, The French coinppdep ivas justified in the demapds he made. " , '

The Australians" havo lost six wickets for 195. M'urdock 73, Turner 21, P." Bovret (not out) 3J,

The Oaks-was run at Epsom, torday | with the following result, i Dnke of Portland's Memoir- .... 1 Signorina '„, ... 2 Pouza ~, ... ... 3 FQHEIGH. ?AKIS, Juno 5, It is probable that the proportion of rpcidivistes sent to New Caledonia will be considerably increased. ' ,A madman blew up a portion, of tlie'famous monastery of La Grande Ohartrouse at Granoble with dynamite, . « ' ■ . Juno 6. Further outrages are threatened at the Chartreuse monastery unless fivo million francs (£200,000) are paid, St. PETERsnoRG, June 6.

' The statement ia confirmed that a meeting is being arranged bsrween the Czar and the Emperor of Austria. Sofia, June G.

The' Bulgarian Government will

shortly address a note to Great Britain, Italy and Austria, urging

that steps be taken towards obtaining formal-recognition of Bulgaria by Austria,

AUSTRALIAN. Stdsei, June 8. The soulling match between Bubear and Brown for £IOO a-Bide to-day; was won by the latter on a foil!. The men rowed on even terms for a distance, and Bubear then began .to forgo, ahead; At tho inilo; post, he was leading by a length and a quarter, and giving Brown his wash, The latter spurted and caught his opponent near Putney and claimed a foul, upon which Bubear- stopped. Up to that point the distance covered had been rowed in 9min Gsec.' , The -Full Court reserved decision on the point raised in theMcLeod case as' to whether the decree of divorce issued to McLeod ngainst his first' wifo in New Mexico should be recognised. The American Government has presented the wrecks of the United States warships at Apia to Samoa, Juno 7. The captnin' of a trading vessel which has arrived here from the Caroline Islands, reports that the natives on the islands are showing a very , hostile attitudo towards the Spanish residents, and an outbreak is - feared. The natives assert that they are treated like Blaves by the colonists, and informed the captain they wanted British or American protection, The Darling River and its tributaries are again flooding above Bourke.

Tlio recent ■ flood has reached Wentwortb, >a town on tlio banks of the Darling, near its confluence with the Murray, and a repetition of the Bourko disaster is faired.