NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3699, 31 December 1890, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

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Lokdok, December 29.

The Times says there is a possibility of Frank Smith, who seceded from the Salvation Army owing to a quarrel with General Booth, starting h rival scheme to the General's colonisation proposal, Bishop Moorehouse, of Manchester, is mentioned as a probable successor of the Archbishop of York, Letttrs appear daily in newspapers ,from Nonconformist laymen intimating their dissent from Mr Gladstone's policy for the disestablishment of the churches of Scotland and Wales, Gnrdinal Manning- approves the scheme put forward by Tom Mann of 1 municipal work and bread shops to I rolieve the unemployed.

It is expected that a conference of the two sections of the Irish party will be held in Paris on Wednesday. O'Donnell, the writer, insists that the Suprome Coancil of the National League shall have control of the £io,ooo deposited in Paris, The Protestant Home Rule. Association ha&passed a yote of conI fidenoe in Mr PavnelL ; :

The railway hands at Hull who struck for higher wages and shorter hours have resumed work, the company having acceded them a partial advance in wages, , The Midland Railway Company is lending drivers and engines to the Scotch railway companies whose employees are out on strike, In consequence of this action the Seoretary of the English Employees' Union threatens to call out 80,000 of their members in sympathy with tho Scotch strike. '

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Washington, December 29,

A conference of delegates frotu North and South Amorioa States will assemble here on 17th January to consider a proposal to establish a monetary union witli a common silver com.

New York, December *29, The railways of New England are snow bound.

Acute distress is experienced by residents'on the Oklahoma reserved lands, near Kansas, Arkansas and Texas, Thirty thousand people are said to be suffering from want of food and clothing, Calcutta, December 29, The Indian National Congress is now holding a successful session,

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Hobart, December 29,

Three men named Jones, McDonald, and Reiinie, and two girls, Jones and McDonald, were drowned in Impression Bay by the capsizing of a boat.

Melbourne, December 80,

Mr Munro, Premier, has addressed 11 circular letter to the Goverutiionts of the other colonies suggesting that a courteous intimation be forwarded to General Booth advising him not to allow his emigration scheme to be given effect to in Australia without Australian interests being consulted. The free laborers objeot to the abelKion of the Free Labor Bureau, and demand recognition of - their claims,

During the thunderstorm al Rutherglen, 168 miles north-east oi Melbourne, two boys, named Harrison and Olcorn, were killed by lightning, Brisbane, December 80.

The wharf laborers have resumed work, The strike was only against holiday pay, and not connected with general work. The bulk stores of Messrs Afred Shaw and Co,, general ironmongers, Townsvillo, were destroyod by lire last night, The contents of the stores wero insured for £ 10,000, and the damage by fire ig estimated at £6OOO.

•Sydney, December 80,

A storm, of terrific force raged at Deriiliquin yesterday, Niuety per cent of the houses in town wero damaged and many narrow escapes from death are reported, Great damage was done to the telegraph lines, miles of them being blown away.

Mows has been received that the Japanese Government have subsidised a Bteam service between Japan and Australia, and the first vessel of ..the now line will .leave Yokohama for an Australian Port on sth Jauuary. With regard to the difficulty which I cropped up with the wharf labourers' over the payment for working on holidays, it appoars that there was no absolute nopsity to work the stoamora on Boxing Day, but work was provided for any men who wished it at Is fid per hour. The whole matter was simply the result of a misunderstanding. Satisfactory accounts are being received' of the harvest prospects in the Albury district, and it is expected tlmt wheat will average 12 bushels to tho acre. Oatp and othor crops will be universally prolific.

Ten thousand acres of grass liave been burnt near Jcrilderie, about 100 miles inland. Incendiarism is suspected and a farmer in the locality is said to be implicated in the affair,