NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3665, 18 November 1890, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

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Ijohdon, Novemter 15. • A temporary African convention between Portugal and England lias been signed. The latest bulletins state that tbe Countess of Jersey is slightly improved. The Peninsular and Orientil Steam Navigation Company have dsla>:ed a dividend of 5 per cent on preferred shares and 6J per cent on deferred shares, with a boiius of 8 per cent. • The Ah Toy v Miisgrove was continued to-day, when Sir Walter PLillimore and Mr McCarthy argued on.behalf of the ! respondent. The appelant counsel, in reply, urged the Court tosum up in favor of tbeCrown prerogative against the entry of Chinese. The Court has adjourned until Wednesday, The report that Sir I Fergusson, Under-Secretary of the Foreign Office, was to be appointed Governor ot Madras, is denied. Miss Eiordan, who confessed to shooting Professor Bright, of Oxford, in a fit of jealousy, has been sontenced to six years' imprisonment. Mr Jamieson's letter, published by bis widow, shows that the girlwljp wa.a made the victim of cannibalism was not purohased by him, bu)' ths the barbarity was caused''bjun imprudent gift of calico' to. & natives. ' '■ '•■""'

The Times elateathat the letter stakes fte heaviest blow- at ; Jamieson's reputation, i The survivors ot H.M.S. Berpenjc agree that the striking of tho rocks was a terrible auvprieo to all on board, and they believe that the compasses were effeoted by minerals o» thecoast. November 10. The official report ofl the loss of

H.SJ.S Serpent states that" the woathenvas thick. The ship bumped;. on'the rocks"*for half an hour, during which .the officers remained on the ' teidgo.. The Captain ordered;the orew into the rigging, but a tremendous sea threw the steameron to.iier beam ends. All those who" were saved belonged- to the crew of: the life boat, -and wore wearing life belts. They • were washed overboard, and bow nothing of -what occurred after ;• they parted company with the ship, ■

'■:' : '; FOREIGN. .. : , ,' Buenos Ames, November 15, Tlio Government of Argentine Eepublichas released Messrs Baring Bros., of London, from their engagements to provide the sum of £C,ooo,Ooofor the construction of the Buenos Ayres Waterworks, /■ ■"■ ■ . November .ieVr Dr Kooli is ill, having been inoouMed with lymph, and it is feared that tuberculosis has sot hi, '■■'■> Dr Libborta, of Berlin, ia selling, a consumptive lymp, the; component parts of which are nofcaied. It' is claimed that it MM the-tubercle-tissue and not the bd% and that' the former is afterwards removed by- * surgical operation. '■';. 5 : /':H . ' . Om\vv ■ _}h& sentence of death' passed on Birchall for the murder of: antnglish tourist named Beiihet W carried out today.; ■.^'■•:f l >-; ; ..■: A bungle was made, of the execution, and if was six minutes before the- condemned man was strangled. The;: body ,-was interred within,the gapl walls.