NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3553, 4 July 1890, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

ENGLISHLondon, July 1. Sir A. Blytbe, Ageut-Geueral for South Australia, will attend the Earl oi Carnarvon's funeral. All the Agents-General unite in Bending a wreath,

Mr Oscar Meyer, who represents New South Wales, is disappointed at the small interest evinced by British exhibitors in the Mining Exhibition. Twenty-three tons of specimens from- Victoria have been shipped, The directors of the British Broken Hill Company are favourably inclined to the proposed increase of capital. The wife and lour daughters of Mr James O'Connor, of United Ireland, died from eating poisonous mussels, '1 he Western Australian Enabling Bill has passed through Committee, and the third reading is fixed for Thursday. New clauses wore proposed, preventing the interdiction of the immigration of British subjects, and referring to mining on private property and the rights of foreigners engaged in pearling, but all were negatived, July 2.

It is asserted that a Unionist memherof the Howe of Commons will be offered the Governorship ol Now South Wales if the Marquis ol Lothian -and Lord Balfour oi Burleigh persist in refusing. . The Earl of Kosebery will unveil the medallion of the late W. B. Dalley on July 17th.

The homeward mails via Brindisi had a narrow escape of being lost in an avalanohe whioh overwhelmed the line at Bussolens. The line was also washed away at Osere, and the passengers experienced much discomfort.

Mr J, 0. Williamson.of Melbourne, has purchased tho Australian rights in the comic opera of" Majorie," and also Messrs Sims and Buchanan's new drama whioh is to be produced at the Adelphi Theatre in August. The •East African agreement between- Gerraauy and England is signed,

The Directors of the Bank of New Zealand are studying Mr David Heau's report, and will probably come to a decision in a week.

The Turks killed 50 Christians al Erzeroum, the oapital of Armenia.

William Ewarfc Moran, who declared his real namo to be Egan, has been cbargod on six informations of bigamy and it is believed there are other cases. Acoused married Emma Figg at'Winobester in March 1887, and Annie Spicer at Dover in October, 188 C. Both these women are iu Australia and Ito Treasury desire to obtain their address, Moran asserts that ho was imprisoned in Wanganui in Maroh, 1887, under the name of Sidney Egan, There is a panio about cholera, and it is spreading both in Spain and France.

The prospeotus of tho Westen Australian Exploring Comfanv hai been issued, with a capital of £20,000