NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3586, 13 August 1890, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

ENGLISH. London, August 11. Tho petition to wind up the Colonial Union Shipping Company has been dismissed. The Eev E. Warn, headmaster of Eton College, has appealed to the University oarsmon to subscribe au Jiight Oar Challenge Cup to bo presented for annual competition by the Australian Universities. FQRBWIT. '■ Bum, August 11.

The populace of Heligoland greeted the Emperor with muoh enthusiasm, In taking formal possession, he said that twenty yoars after the battle of Woerth they found themselves in a position to reincorporate, without a war, tho last piece ot German earth, an island which would harbor in safety the German navy any enemies in the German Ocean. All the English officials' have left the island.

The Kaiser received an ovation in Heligoland. He described the cession of (he island as a bloodless victory. It is asserted that the Emperor intends to visit Paris.

Si. Pethwburo, August 11. Hundreds of Jewish families in Southern Eussia are fleeing from the country. Bands aro ro.ving about robbing and murdering the Jews. flussia welcomes Armeuian refa gees but declines to pledge herself to interfere on their behalf. Brussels, August 11. A procession of 40,000 marched through Itio streets of Brussels, demanding universal suffrage. Capetown, August U.

Presidtnt Kruger states that Eng--1 land has agreed to permit the annexation by the Transvaal of Swaziland as soon as the affairs qf ' the country are properly regulated. Guatemala, August U. The rebels have been defeated. AUSTRALIAN. Melbourne, August 12, h prmfmmz lias been made out agaiust the directors of tho Premier Permanent Building Association, with the exception of JL,L V Dow, ex-Minister of Lands, who'h'as been acquitted of complicity in the fraud. The Cabinet areoonsideriug tho advisableness of reappointing Mr Dowto^orlfglio,