NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3560, 12 July 1890, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

: ; ; -ENGLISH, London, July 9. The. Agents-General aro urging the Chanoellor of the Exchequer to give an early answer to the request of the colonies that' the Imperial Government should contribute to the cable subsidies andsharo of the guarantee; i ;■■..-..- My 10. A Mr Weston is charged with forging the name of Wertheimer to a j by Lady Dunlo. '

In the. House of Commons the Bankruptcy Bill has been read the third time. •

An English Alkali Union is being floated with a capital of niue millions sterling, Tho police are forming a council to advocate their demands. Bow-street is quiet,

It is rumoured that the Priuce of Wales is interceding with tho Home Secretary in favour of the iorce. An enquiry into the disaffection among, the Grenadier Guards is proceeding.. . Mr Gladstone, in a .letter to the Press, insists that the Irish Question ought to havo precedence in the House of Commons over the disestablishment of the- churches of Scotland and Wales,

Tbe_ new Bishop of Sydney, the Rev. "Saumarez Smith, sails on July 18.

Tenders were opened to-day for the City of Melbourne loan of £450,000 at 4 per cent. The total amount subscribed was £548,000. Tenders at the minimum (.£108) get 78 per cont, Tho average price was only tenpence over the minimum, The Gibbs Syndicate has arranged to transfer tho Mount Morgan shares to the London register in October, ' July 11.

Mr Goschen has finally refused to share the cable subsidy or a guarantee, on the ground that it would be a bad precedent. . FOREIGNCapetown, July fj, Tho South African Railway Bill has been defeated, and it is expected that tho Government will either, resign or appeal to-tho country. Sofia, July 10. A girl fired a shot at M, Stambouloff, the Premier, to-day, but fortunately without hitting him, Zanzibar, July 9, Dr Peters has arrived here, "■ Buenos Ayres, July 9.

The Uruguay State has decreed a forced currency of the notes of the National Bank for six months. The financial crisis continues hero and also at Montevideo. Dr Oelmuti, president of the Argontine Republic will ask the House of Deputies to authorise the issue of 100,000,000 dollars worth of notes.

July 10. The Argentine Bepublio is issuing large numbers of notes to relieve tli< strain.

New York, July 10. Tho trial of the Zalinßld dynamite gun on the Hudson river was a Buccess. The weapon ordered by Victoria" is being shipped via Slioeburynesa. • Eome, July 10. I The Pope has Hummonod the cardinals and bishops to meet at Koine next year to consider the oondilion of the church.

Brussels, July 0." The advance of a million sterling by tho Belgian Government for the purposes of tba Congo Free State is made conditionally that, after' the expiratiou of ten years Belgium shall bo at liberty to annex the Congo, and that King Leopold 11., under whose sovereignty and individuality the Congo Free State was placed by the vote of the Belgian Legislature, bequeaths his rights to Belgium unless it is decided during his lifetime to annex the State, .