NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3583, 9 August 1890, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

ENfILISE.

London, August 6. ; Speaking at the., banquet of the i Mansion House, tbo Marquis of Salisbury said' the condition of Europeat the present moment' wt>s uninteresting, but it was eminently peaceful, and he was confident' that the agreements outereci in to by England with Germany and France with respect to African territory had removed what might have .been a cause of future quarrels. 'Referring' to Egypt ho said that that country had become prosperous owing to English administration, and it would only, be evacuated when England found that Egypt was ablo to secure her own prosperity. Speaking of Ireland/ lie said affairs there were moro peaceful and prosperous, and the people more contented than they were in 1888. . / August 7. France permits the English protectorate over Zanzibar if England submits to France granting an oxequarter to consuls in Madagascar, influenoe over the territory outside of Algeria, Senegal, and _ the Niger, of which a line from Tunis to' Lake Tchad, thenoe say on the Niger, is o form the eastern and southern loundariesi'

A silver corner is being eatabhabei

in England, : -, The Grenadier Guards have arrived safely at Bermudas. The Oxford County Council lias forwarded a message to tho Earl of Jersey, congratuluting ltira ou bit appointment to the Governorship ol New South Wales,

Mr E. N. (1, Braddon, Agent. General for Tasmania, has written to

leTimei warning the;' public thai

the purchase of the Tasmauian main line of railway by the Government is as yet incomplete. ' Benzon, the Jubileo plunger, has agreed to pay bis creditors 5s in the £.

It is now asserted'that tliero ia no intention of mooting the Jews ifi Russia. In their second innings against Keiit, the Australians were all out for 128 runs, the county team thus winning by 108 runs, .■ August 7. The match between the Australians and Cambridge Past and Present began at Leytou to-day, The latter havo lost three wickets . for 96. Turner, Ferris and Walters are not playing. AVSmiiIAK

Brisbane, August 7. In cousequence of the close division on tho want of confidenee motion the Ministry has rosigned. Sir S W Griffiths, win tabled the motion, has undertaken the formation of a new Cabinet, which Sir Thomas MoIlwraith will probably join as..Treasurer, ' •. ;

Melbouuse, August 8. The want of confidence motion wai rejected without a division,'

FOSEM. New Yobk, August 7 Kromlev was undaunted wl placed in the chair for. execution'.

The eleotrio currents were imporfect, and as tho -contract was also faulty, tliree shocks had to bo applied before death resulted, but tho

condemned man was unconscious after the first.

Portions, of tho body were burnt, and smoke was aoen isauipg from bis back,

i Kremlei'appeared quite calm', but' a number of spectators hinted at tho frightful contortions whiclv continued for three minutes after the first shook,

■ Tho body was much burnt, and presented a hideous spectacle. - The medical gentlemen present assert that the execution was a horrible case of butchery; The exeoutiou has caused groat excitemant, and the press demand a repeal of the Buenos Aim August 7.

The Chambers havo accepted the resignation of Dr Oelmau, and Dr Carlos Pellegrini, tho yice-Prosident, who was elected to succeed him, is engaged forming a uew Cabinet. At the Brighton' Meeting to-day the Cup was won by Philomel; Shillelagh, 2; Rejected, 8.