NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3542, 21 June 1890, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

ENGLISH. London - , Juno 18. , | Sir J. Bqehm's niedallioh. of .the' late Bight lion,'W/B, Dalley will be unveiled at St Paul's in July. After four days' hearing tho caso of Miss Wiedemann v R. Walpolo has come to a conclusion. The defendant sought to (Gbtl)lish: the position that the plaintiff was an adventuress. .The detective employed by him. however, "supported Miss Wiedemann's case; but nevertheless the jury disagreed, and could not arrive at a.verdict,. }£ MrGoscben baa been'perauaded to reconsider the oahle question, and this tiiiio it is hoped ho will return a moro favourable answer,

■T-i'p 1 , The Australian ! Trading World suggests consolidation of a portion of the Australasian 'debts at the rato of £lO per head, into Federal 3 per cent consols, jointly and severally secured by perpetuity, and bo made to constitute an acceptable in'eijiuip to the Trustees (investment Bill; The Times considers the suggestion ingenious, and Bays it can.be effected without difficulty. ; Mr, Gladstone opposes the cession of Heligoland. . The jUerman press is jubilant; Frenob press considers it a degrading arrangement. - - The) opinions of the press vary as to the cession of Heligoland to Germany, The St. James', Gazette considers that . England lias iuddo a| bad bargain. s Tlie Pall Mall'Gazettee calls it' a shameful transaction. The Star stigmatises. tbo : Premier Jas a traitor! and tho' Daily fab'roniole speaks of it as ignominious. .

FOKEIGN. Berlin, Juue 19. • : Germans-are.,estreih'ely.jubilant at the cession of' Heligoland. General Von Ciprivi lias received from the Emperor the Order of the Black Eagle. s Cairo, June" 19. Smallpox is prevalent in Egypt. Paris, June 19. France is issuing a 3 per cent, loan of 700,000,000 francs (£28,000,000). : Vienna, June 18. : Count Kalnoky is indisposed,