NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3707, 10 January 1891, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

ENGLISHLondon, January 7. The Admiralty propose to store 2,000 (?) tons of coal in the vicinity of Sydney harbour. If land can be obtained at a reasonable price, the coal will be stored on shore, if not, coal hulks will be built to receive it. Captain E. G. Bourke has been appointed to the command of 11.M.5. Ringarooma, and Captain T. P. Nesbara to H.M.S. Tauranga. Edward O'Erien.auother Invincible, has been discharged from gaol. The value of the imports for the year is £6,700,000 below the previous year, while the exports show an increase of £14,600,000. At the instigation of John Burns, 2000 Dunedin dockers have gone on strike out of sympathy with the railway men.

The traders and manufacturers suffer worse than the railway companies, as many of the works are stopped for want of coal.

January 8. Tha steamship owners having declined to co-operate with the Freight Committee, the ring is weakening, and a reversion to tlio former state is considered likely, The Scotch railways have lost £70.000 through the strike.

The Miners' Federation arc holding a conference in Birmingham, 150,000 men are represented. The delegates are collecting funds toassist the railway men out on strike. The will of the late Countess of Rosebery, has been sworn at three quarters of a million.

Dr Koch has arrived in London from Berlin.

Win. Moroney, one of those who pleaded guilty to participation in the Phoenix Park murders, and was sentenced to ten years' penal servitude, has been released from custody.

General Booth intends to make a tour of Europe to promote his emigration scheme.

It is reported that a process has been invented for the reduction of Sold ores, by which the Mount Torrens refractory ores can be treated at a cost of 7s 6d per ton, with a result of one ounce of gold and two of silver, as against fivs dwts only of gold yielded by the ordinary procesß. Obituary—Mr C. D. Clifford Lloyd.

The loss to the North Britisli Railway Company owing to the strike is estimated at £30,000. Captain Patrick Healy Hutchison, commanding the Speedwell, was seized with an attack of hemorrhage of the lungs after a dinner given by the Duke of Edinburgh, and is in a critical condition.

It is reported that O'Brien agrees to use bis influence to depose Mr Macarthy and secure his own or Dillon's election as chief of the Irish parly, Parnell is to retire from active service until the next general election and to transfer to O'Brien £IO,OOO or £15,000 of the League funds for the Tipperary tenants.

The funds for the relief of the distressed Irish families started by Mr Balfour and the Earl of Zetland has reached £ 6OOO.

McCarthy atarts for Boulogne im mediately to interview O'Brien. The Sailors' and .Firemen's Union is negotiating with Mr Fitzgerald, the Australian labor delegate, to secure the federation of the maritime labor of Australia with that of Great Britain.

Mr Fitzgerald has ascertained that the following amounts were forwarded to the Australian Strike Fund:— Dockers, £IOSO ; Sailors and Firemen £lUooj Parliamentary Committee of the London Trades Council, £1978. The details of other sums reunited are in possession of Mr John Burns, and Mr Fitzgerald awaits Mr Burns' return from Scotland to obtain the complete total. It is reported that a convention is being arranged on a basis acceptable to Portugal. |

News from East Africa states that British gunboats of the Zambesi are rigorously boycotted by the Portuguese.

The Conference between Messrs O'Brien and P-arnell is ended, and it is officially intimated that a peaceable settlement on the question of tfie leadership is expected, It is reported that Mr Parnell agrees to retire from the lead if Mr Justin McCarthy resigns, thus leaving the whole party to elect anew leader. Mr Arnold Morley, M.P. for .Nottingham East, is reported to have warned Mr O'Brien that Mr Gladstone insists on Mr Parnell's final withdrawal from public life. Mr Dillon approves of Mr O'Brien's temporarily replacing Mr Parnell as leader of the party.

FOREIGN. Washington, January 8. Exhibits for the Chicago World Fair will be admitted duty free. The New York Herald states that the report that the American Pacific squadron has been ordered to mobilise at Port Townsend in the spring is untrue, and that the a'speet of the Behring Sea difficulty is improving, General Miles, who commands at Pine Ridge, is hopeful that the Indians will surrender without further bloodshed. Five of the prnicipal Indian bands have submitted. Mr John Noble, Secretary of the Interior, is expected to resign owing to the President's decision to appoint military Indian agents. Paris, January 8. The revenue for 1890 shows a surplus of 60 million francs (£2,400,000). Ottawa, January 8. The Canadian Government offers a money bonus to encourage emigration to Manitoba.

AUSTRALIAN. Melbourne, January 9, Dr Springthorpe, who went to investigate Dr Koch's discovery, cables that he has obtained a supply of lymph and that he considers the method of treatment promising. He returns immediately. Brisbave, January 9. A scheme is being discussed at Thursday Island to have that and other islands in Torres Strait elected 'into a separate Stato under the Federal authority of Austr ilia. Thursday Island, January 8. A tribe of head hunters have annihilated a village of 80 inhabitants and are preparing to tike the next vil which is" next to the residence of Mr" Cameron, the Government A a ent, whom they also threaten to atfack. A force of constabulary has been sent from Port Moreby to protect Mr Cameron,.