NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3580, 6 August 1890, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

• ENGLISH. London, August 8. The rumor ia revived that Mr WH. Smith, leader of tho House, wil accept a peerage, aud that Mr Balfoui will succeed Lira.

Mr W.L.Jackson, Financial Beorotary to the Treasury, is mentioned as likely to assume the Chief Secretaryship ot Ireland, Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, President of the Board of Trade, is likely to take charge of the Colonial Office, Lord Kniitsford beooming Lord Privy Seal, The Marquis of Salisbury lias declined to accept the overtures of the friends of Lord Randolph Churchill regarding the latter rejoining the Cabinet. It is announced that the Marquis of Hartington will marry the Dowager Duchess of Manchester in April August i. The Emperor of Germany lias arrived at Dover. Statistics prove ■ that the wheat crop is eleven million quarters below that required for home consumption, Experiments made show that wheat grown in a tomperato climate is most free from rust. In discussing the question, the Standard advises Australian growers to utiliso English ; seed.

Cholera is spreading in Spain, am it is expected that it will extend t Paris.

• The Emperor of Germany has arrived at Cowes.

The Emperor of Germany goes to St. Petersburg after his visit to England. The Emperor William had a groat reception at Osborne, in the Isle of Wight.

The Dunlos and Wertheimer dined together after the divorce, case was over. The lady. goes on a starring our in Ireland, and it is expected that Dunlo will pay a visit to the Cape 1 FOREIGN. . ...Capetown, August-1, The Supreme Court has ordered 1 the Union Rank to be wound up. Athens, August!. A destructive firo has been raging over the peninsula of Mount Athos. Forests have been devastated, and the monasteries and hermitages, for which the Mount has long been celebrated are all destroyed. Twenty monks and hermits lost their iive3. The damage is estimated at one million pounds, Paris, August 4. The French Senate has passed the Sugar Surtax.Bill, Ii is reported iu Paris that a dynamite mine has been discovered on the railway line between Revel and Narva, along the routo which the German Emperer intends to take to St. Petersburg, New York, August 4, A bridge-jumper named Maocaffrey, leaped into the Charles River at Boston from a height, of 150 feet and was killed. Thirty deaths have occurred in Chicago from sunstroke, Erzeroum, August 4. The Turkish reserves have been called out the authorities fearing a rising ill Armenia, • Si Petersburg, August 4. It is reported that the Czar's edicts against the Jews are denied. Old enactments had merely been rigor. ou6ly enforced.

Buenos Aires, August 4, Everything is tranquil, and order is being maintaintd. A number of senators and deputies support the President, It is asserted that Major Palma, who Dr Celman declared to be an informer, has been poisoned, The Cabinet has. decided in favor •of a foroed currency, The Government continues Treasury payments' and suspends commercial only. ..Lisbon, August 2, ■ In the Chamber of Deputies the Minister of Justice announced that the ordinary tribunal would adjudi. cate in connection with the seizure of the British steamer at Mozambique