NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3706, 9 January 1891, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

ENGLISH. London, January 8. A syndicate, of which David Oppenheiiuer is the head, is being former] with a capital of half a million sterling, to take oyer and work all the antimony mines iu New South ' Wales and Victoria. The ores from tbe mines will be trouted by a now process. Tho Union Bunk of Australia has declamd a dividend of 11 per cent, and curried £16,000 forward to nextyear,

January C. A disturbance occurred at Coatbridge, iu Scotland, to-day, between a party of strikers and a number of men who huvo tilled their former stormad the latter in dormitory, and matters became 80 serious that the assistance of the police had to be obtained. Six of the strikers were arrested, while many others were severely batoned by the police.

John Bums has been trying to induce the Great English Unions to give monetary assistance to men out on strike iu Scotland, but his efforts for the most part have not proved successful. The Seamen's and Firemen's Union are the only bodies that responded to the call, and between them they have subscribed J6BOOQ, January 7. Prince Henry of Battep.berg has been appointed Governor of the Isle of Wight. The mortality ip London, owiug to the hard winter, is COO above the weekly average. ftleepers wcro placed across tho North. British line, but were discovered in time, aud the dastardly attempt to wreck the traiu failed. It is believed that Mr Parnell haa won over Mr O'Brien to hia side. The rioters who were arrested this {week have beeu sentenced -to tormti of , \ mp«sonnjeut^_^^^^^^^|j|j«

Ma Parnell intends to visit Limerick on Sunday. There is no excitement or feeling exhibited by the English press ovp.t the Behring Sea difficulty. The Standard's Washington enrrespondt-nt-telegraphs that the United States Government are considering a proposal to suspend sealing in Miring Sea pending an agieement with the Powers interested. The Right Hon. X. J. Balfour has thanks for the generous response to the appeal issued by the Lord Lieutenant and himself onbehalf

of distressed Irish families. '-** Messrs Parnell and O'Brien were ---"*■ closeted together for many hours yesterday, and resumed their conference to day. The work of laying the new cable through the Pied Sea has been completed. Preparations are being made for laying another cable between Aden aLd Bombay, and a third line of cable between Madras and Penang is ready to be put down. Fhe new cable tariff would come into operation much sooner if the Agents-General were instructed to sitjn agreements with the Cable Company on behalf of their respective colonieaM^^^^_ The Coatbridge, near Glasgow, flP^Hy re are extensive ironworks, is by the strike, and the factories have stopped work. Mr Burns asserts that the men are winning.

FOREIGN. Calcutta, January 7. The Indian Government intend to raise the age of consent from 10 to 12, but will not otherwise interfere the system of early marriages, has been so much criticised of late.

Rome, January 7. An Anarchist Conference at Tiglioli, in Northern Italy, passed resolutions urging the initiation of a general agitation on Ist May. St Johns, January 7. Newfoundland asserts her right to expel Frenchmen and leave France and England to settle the issues. Washington, January 7. The reported battle with the Indians was only : an attack on a provision train. Short Bull, the Indiau leader, threatens to capture Pine Ridge, regardless of cost. It is def 3nded by only six hundred regulars. New York, January 7. It is expected that the Senate wili pass, and the Honse will reject, the Free Coinage Bill. Washington, January 7. Secretary Blaine accepts the principle of arbitration respecting the Behring Sea dispute, and suggests a revision of the Marquis of Salisbury's

references The New York Herald considers that the United no right to monopolise the seal Ssieries under the purchase from Russia. The New York Times, World, and Tribune advise moderation in dealing with the matter. '

Zanzibar, January 7. Dar>es-Saiaceam, a port on the mainland south of Zanzibar, becomes the German naval, seat of Government. Emin Pasha has been appointed Governor of the land territory. Capetown, January 7. Sir H. Loch, Chief Commissioner of the Cape, visits England in with the Anglo-Portuguese initiations. AUSTRALIAN. Sydney, January 8. It has been discovered that Bennett the late manager of the Paddington branch of the English and Scottish

Chartered Bank, perpetrated his frauds with great ingenuity. He to have operated upon the Kfendon Chartered Bank, aa well as bank, by means of title deeds and other securities. The defalcations amount to fully £20.000. Melboubne, January 7. : There is considerable excitement in Tasmanian silver stocks, and a boom has set in. January 8. The first mail to the United Kingdom under, the 2id rate of postage shows an increase of 50 per cent over the number of letters forwarded under the old tariff.

The Zalinski gun, purchased some time ago by Victoria, has been taken over by the Imperial Government and the colony thus gets rid of what looked like a white elephant.