NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3589, 16 August 1890, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

EIIOLISE. London, August IS. The potato disease has made its appearanco iu Ayrshire. The potato disease is spreading, and it is estimated the yield jvill only be one-fourth of the averago, and fears of a famine are increasing. The Public Works Department have been requested to afford relief. August 14. The .Financial News says the Queensland investors have nothing to fear from tho change of Ministry, Sir S. Griffiths- having earned the right to be regardod as safe. Tho Anglo-Portuguese agreement

will be signod to-day. . The Emperor of Germany hot startod for Si. Petersburg, The new board of tho Uaok ol New Zealand has been constituted as follows;—Colonol Baring,' Messrs John A. Ewen, Herbert Fison, Richard Glyn and Thomas Stewart, the Eight Hon Anthony J. Muudella, and Sir Jamos Fergusson, •

■ 3FQM&N. Paris, August H. • M, Ribot is oxamiuing a scheme for the construction of an international railway from Algeria to Capetown. Phylloxera has appeared iu the Mame and Ehine districts. New York, August .18. War between San Baljador and Honduras seems imminent. Washington, August 14. The United States Government has purchased 810,Q00oz of silver at slightly above London quotatioi). ' '' Hons Kokg, August 11. The CJjamfer of Cqqimerqe }ia| protested against the proposedOhinese convention. EuEnos Avbes, August' 14. Uneasiness is still felt at the position of affairs in tho Argentine. St PIiTERBBUI(G, August 14. •The Novosti Vremya predicts important political results from the German Emperors interview with tb'p Czar. '' ■ ■ ; 1 Madrid, August 14, The cholera is declining.' iJEmifr, August 13. Tho fortifipatio'ns offleligolandwili cost a million aiid ali'alf sterling. " Bomb, August ID. Mass in memory of tho late Cardinal Nejvman was celebrated jn tjie Pop.e'a priyate .Qh'appl,'