NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3692, 20 December 1890, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

ENGLISH,

London, December 17.

Mr Marks; proprietor af the Financial News, brought a libel suit against a man named Butterfield, who oocused him'of blackmailing and. floating : a rotten 'company. The casif, wbioh attracted great interest in the city, ended in Butterfield's 'acquittal. The steycdores refused to load the Arawa because she was coaled by free Mborers. ; ; ; ; ;; : The Arawa succeeded in getting part of her coal on board, and will obtain the rest at Teneriffe. The Shipping Federation ha ordered Unionist laborers not to bo employed at Glasgow. _ Tlio Agents-General decline Jo interview the Premier about'the' Vancouver Mail Service until they have been instructed by thoir respective Governments, An impression prevails that if the promoters could induce New Zealand to auppprfc this line instead of the San : Francjscb Service the rest of the' subsidy jyoijlij bo easily obtainable, ; ;; • ■ :; •Owing tb; Mrs Bernard 'Bcere's illness, _ Miss Emily Eitzroy, an Australian actress, is playing her part' of Lady Guy Spanker'in ."London Assurance." ( ' ; V'-". .'U-!;. 'A telegram from Rome Jeuies-tiie reported illness of the Pope,who, it la stated, granted several audiences yesterday. • ;.;.-':%.' :■; ; , : , , SirM Mackenzie's experiments with Koch's lymph havo been successful. ,; ' : A deputation,-representing C'eutiij

Queensland, vvaiteil onLordKnatafbrt^ admitted, that, Griffith** ; prpposnls recently ' laid!; before ■ the ' Colonial Purliament would tlietnhabiiimts if they were likely to • be ; carried, but; another/dissented." Sir-P;-. Archer and Sir SVilaoii : ' advocated separation, -,-,::■'■..' : -k^ i<j<iPon whsnot yet ripe!.for settle- : mont; pending,, the- ; arriygl bfi (theA Governor, Sir H.' Korm(ln )H "«ndVo!m§' Botion biT the' part^oFKQiieenslandT; Parlwraent to : make provision'■'• : "lbr> paymentof;the,jSolonikldebtM jlfc s ; iiggested\th l i^sch^mo i i ßfioilhijH bondholders/ ' : ' ;, i. December 18,'/■ The.Britisli East Africa Gotnpanjl have withdrawn from, Manic^LandVl ,Tho '■■ scheme ;dravra lip by/ *$ J to tbe'lniperiaUristitute, for holdinfl a/Mining and MetallurgicalExliibitioM in connection Avith the opening of iheu Imperial Institute wnß formally J*, mitted to H.B.H. tho Prince oVWk - (the president) to-dav, who expired/ himself decidedly/ ui : favor of - the'' proposal. It is intended to give great '■■ promirienco tometal..works ( and' Sir" Frederick Abel cousiders that the extent of ground available is sufficient for the purposes of the Exhibition. ■ Mr Pamell addressed ■ a meeting 1 ' to-day with his face bandaged tip/1 Inflammation;is feared from the result of lime which: waV thrown ititb his eyes. 1 The ;orowd threatened r vengeance on/Mr McCarthy, who'was'" hnstled by the mob on his arrival'at '• Kilkenny;."/;..;;/ '■/:'",:/"/:;;'//■;! „ Tl >a -inaction .obtained ;'by ;Mr■."■: FurneJ against United .IreJand- has ; been disregarded."The paper will bo- :i re-named, and it is believed it cannot:: be suppressed,':''':'"' 1 •'-.^V .Mr. Chamberlain,/ speaking : : T&.' Jiiminghatn,,Ba.id : >nat ; Home Rulewas outside practical politics. mi'Vi ': : V December 10; ' Tho Court; martial inq.iiiy info the • lossof H.M.S. 881-pent found' that'it was attributable to bad navigation;;; jMrChanihWlainj in the couMbfj his speech jt Birmingham, saidW the re union of the Liberal impassible : until ; Home /Rule V abandoned, ;/: : /: .•: : -}j : ! ■ '•

FOREIGN. ,:. "-^ . Washington December 17,; : 'j : • "■•■'■■ i In an engagement at Eapid Citrthe Indiana killed, two. officers ans hfty troopers but lost heavily themDubious reportsare being circulated ;; of the Indian raids/in tlie North"•.. '7 Western/States," .', ,'■''''[ '.''.' Some, December 18ii: ■ - I Premier Crispi denies, that Italian ' jtroopsara marohing on ~ : AUSTRALIAN.' " Tho Rabbit. Bill has,passed the ; Lower House by 60 to 13, There wasi conaiderable opposition from the; i'. ' back-block members,' who state that ' the Government will have to . ' fencing, The measure is only intendedto stay in force until the Local s ] '"'' Government Bill ia passed; • - '■ latter is expected to be' introdufll next session. .'.■ ■!'..".: ; . ••■',_..'.' - ; .' '■"'. '

. ;:■ December, 19. .;.:■ .Captain Franks Hickson, B.N.i ; President of tho Marino Jfrrd, flailed in. tbe Mararda .yesterd^/fo'r l New Zealand to confer with the representatives of other colonies who meetatlnvercargillfor the purpose \ of selecting a site for a lighthouse oo ; ; thoSnaroß,

;,BRisßANE ) ,Decembe'rlß.", ~ The soundings which haro been:.'-i recently taken- show that there; are- K onlyOftofwater'atlow tide rockonwUiohtheQuetta : struck.;' ■' ! : ,! ; ■''.""'■'; :;,. i | .Deceiaber'l9. : ' ;i '"' , A succession ; of. terrißo .'storms',''!"'. i have passed oyer'the city ,'mi neigh-', % borhood during the paßt; week, causing .r-';' groat damage. •;< ■>■. ;,<•..... .. /•,,<) : MEwounNß,'])ecomb9r'l9. : ■■'''* New■ Hebrides 1 reaolutionff,'-' '• respecting _ restrictions'placed ,on . English ' traders, wh'ioh are to "lie "•'. submitted ,to „the Federal Oounoii,'; ; " : i have passed through the Houso of"" Assembly.: Mr D. Gillies, ox- : Premier, in o powerful ■ speech ■-' supported.tho resolutions,, and. said ' / that IVenoli influence was agaiJk' I i asserting itsolf over the group.' " '