NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3575, 31 July 1890, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

smisE. .London, July 28. The Chamber of Commerce intends • . torovivo the committee, appointed five years ago ta deal thoroughly witb the whole question of bills of lading. . The press generally applauds the •Earl of Jersey's appointment wbioh is- characterised as nearly perfect. Pis Lordship Bails for Sydney in i October. ypLady Danld adtnitfed in evidence that'she had been , the mistress of ' Weston before .her marriage, but. denied adultery with: Wertheimer;' . The Union Bank of Australia' has declared a dividend of 14 per, cent and carried forward LIS,OOO to next . year." 1 ' : ,

M-The Liberals , are cabling to Sir- '■ Thomas Mcllwr'aitb, of Queensland, : to contest Ayr; boroughs at the, next general election. • /.Doubts-are expressed as to the Earl .of Jeraoy'a sueoess in his new '• capaoity. v •

K f* : - • • July 20. \_ < The Bill providing for the cession of 'Holligol&nil to Germany lias paaafid its fliird roddiiig m the House of Commons. V ' The cables' lmve been out off at Buenos Ayree, 1 row. , St. Petersburg, July 28. The expulsion of 4,000,000 Jows from Bussia is believed to bo imminent.' , Capetown, July 28. Mr Cecil Bhodes, Premier, has given notice of motion in tbo Cape Parliament to tlio effcot that tho .. Capo: Colony ought, to havo been j consulted respecting the agreement ! with' Portugal as to tho territory • South of tlio Zambesi, and that ' colony claims a voice in the disposi- j tion of that territory. Zanzibar, July 28. Einiu Paslu and several of . the German ollicers are ill. W-"'-. Karoma, ono of tliq rival claimants to the Threno of Uganda, is reported ' to have been killad. Pretoria, July 28. M. Hofmeyer and President Kruger have agreed to tho settlement ol the Swaziland dispute in favor of , Transvaal Republic. i