NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3683, 10 December 1890, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

EITGLISH. .' London, December 8. Renter's Telegram Company has increaswlits capital, and intends to start an advertising agency. The stevedores have'refused to strike. Major, Hood, the Victorian candidate, headed the list oi 78 British and Canadian officers who competed for the Hythe musketry certificate, Ha was granted an extra special diploma, and also o special certificate as instruotor in machine gnns. Mr Pamell retains control of the Parliamentary fund, 'which amounts to ,£20,000, and proceeds to Ireland' to organise the National party, Those who seceded from Mr Pamell propose to establish a dally paper in Ireland, and continue tho'payment of members of the Irish Parliamentary patty.

Messrs O'Brien and Dillon approvo of Mr Jiißtiu McCarthy's appointment to the leadership, and urge that the unity of the (arty be restored. It is reported they intend returning to England. The Times, referring to Saturday's meeting of the Ivish party, states that the dissension and violence/exhibited has fully justified the most sinister predictions of an Irish Legislature. The press considers that as the Irish party has ceased to represent a majority; o{ the people, the conflict will now be removed t6 Ireland. The seceders from tho Parnell party have subscribed £IOOO to assist members whose salaries are stopped. Thoy intend to stump Ireland, The seceders from Parnell numbor, 45, and his adherents 20. Parnell is preparing to stump Ireland, The committee of University oarsmen have agreed to carry out the proposal of the Rev E. Warre, headmaster of Eton College, that University oarsmen should subscribe an Eight Oared Ohallongo Cup to be presented lor annual competition by Australian Universities.

FOREIGN. Paris, Deoomber 8. In the Chamber of Deputies a proposal has beau made to impose a surtax of B.GO francs per kilos on Australian Capo wools imported from England. The object of this tax is to fasoilitate the wool market at Dunkirk. Si PETunsnoito, December 8. Grand Duke Nicholas, uncle of the Czar, is incurably insane. ' Washington, Deceinbor 8, It is hoped the Indians in the North-west will bo be pacified without further trouble,

Buenos Araus, December 8. A plot to make General Fonesca, President of the Bcpublicof Brazil, Dictator of the Argontiuo Republic, has been suppressed. Lisbon, December 8, It is asserted that the English wore the aggressors in the fracas at Matacas which led to the British flag being pulled down, ■ : -.-■,' •

AUSTRALIAN,

Bvdney, December 9. The Herald this morning in an article on the result of the general elections in New Zealand makes reference to tho defeat of the lite Speaker, Sir Maurice O'Rorke, and says that his fairness and impartiality to friend and foe alike, the clearness and fairness of his decisions, and his uniform courtesy and determination bvo made N«w Zealand representatives the most orderly of any representatives in the. Australasian colonies. The Daily Telegraph devotes au article to the Bame . subject, and remarks that whatever the history of th? new Parliament may be, .its management, owing to the amount of raw material introduced, will scarcely prove a work of an easy character for an amateur speaker to perform. Melbourne, December 9. The commissioners of the late, exhibition have made their filial report, in which the/ state that they consider ■ tho loss justified on the ground that .the greator part of the money was spent on artisan* \vUlijn the colony, and they also claim'(hat the great increase in railway receipts' might fairly be credited to the exhibition, * , Adelaide; December 9. -: -The report of the -Railway - Commissioners ha 3 been presented to Parliament, It shows • that therecent r'strike paused 4heilosai;.o{ L 35,000 into.revenue, ';' „ Brisbane, Decembor 9i ; Almost an inexhaustible supply of sapphires has been found -near Nituersfield station on' the: route of fti^nte»Tß»i|way,;:/V" "■ VV