NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3664, 17 November 1890, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

_ London, Norembor ; 13, The Departmental Committee;; -'■'. dealing with the expiry of European •' ■' commercial treaties with Great Bri- '-<•'< •:. tain, Ims invited tho raridua AgentsGeneral to submit a statement Betting • forth whether the colonies wish to' ... participate in the renewals, ... ,• November 14>\- '•. " _ Obituary-Major-General Charles Fasley, who sorved on - the staff of - Major-Goneral Pratt in New Zealand ,' m 1860, when lie, was severely:■ '•'••'" wounded. , '■'■.■•;'■ .■'■. TO^. B men's qiiart'nrs at Wellington Barracks' [ wero' partially ' : burned to-day..' ■,.,;,. : •: Many of tho inmatos were only rescued with difficulty. The women and children had to bo lowered from the windows by ladders. No lives were lost, but, twenty-'. •:< five persons were more or less -in- ''v\ jured. , ~, ■'-, ■-, „ : v.,V' London'j November 13; v; The total number of-persons on - '' board H.M.S. Serpent was 178, 'of • ; whom only three were saved. ■■''.-■''. H.MS. Serpent, wrecked off the •■>' coast of Spain, struok during'the middle watoh. Her boilers exploded, and the majority 6f those aboard . J being asleep, Uhere was no time to ■"'¥ launch the boats. '..,.■-/£ The Times this niornuu; publishos : " the affidavit of Asson Farran, i.who 'u ..-. was interpreter to the Stanley expedition, in Africa. In this the ghastly' details of Major Barttelot's ornelty ". ■ are givon, and tho, charge againsk ". ' Jamieson is reiterated. I The Bank of Prance has advanced - three millions at threo pec oent. : •'' •' The settlement is favorable,-and advices from New' York report: thai •-• : ii K matters are quieter. ' " • • - ;

FOREIGN. Berlin,. November 14. Br, Koch explains that by his process phthisis in its first stage is absolutely curable, while in its | B tec stage grout benefit is derived, DrLibborts, of Berlin, has supplied the lymph to thtusands of patients already, Berlin, November 14. A Bill submitted to the Federal Oonnoil of Germany abolishes the.' sugar bounties, and substitutes a tax ; oi 22 marks per 100 kilos, Exported sugars are exempted from the tax, Tho Primary Education Biil provides for religious instruction in, Afr all orders, '"

AUSTRALIAN, . Adelaide November 15. Mr Playford, Premier of South Australia, is communicating with the other colonies with reforenca to sending a medical man to examine into Dr Koch'a cure for consumption;