NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3708, 12 January 1891, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

ENGLISH. London, January 8. The Agents-General continue to bring before Mr iGoschen, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the necessity for a Bill providing for the investment of trust fuuds in colonial stocks, and now urge him to legislate on the lines of the report submitted by the Select Committee which inquired into the question last Bession. The St James Gazette publishes General Booth's trust deed of the Salvation Army, and declares it I worthless as a protection to subscribers. ! January 9. The weather in England and on the Continent is the severest experienced for 80 years. Mr W. O'Brien, who was sentenced to six months' imprisonment in October last for inciting tenants at Tipperary not to pay rent, but escaped to France and the United States, has cow returned to Englnuil and surrendered himself to the authorities. Mr Balfour's Irish Fund haa now reached LI 1,000. Mr O'Brien denies that Mr Parnell Agreed to retire provided he (O'Brien) accepted the leadership ot the party. Mr T. Sexton is proceeding to Boulogne.

London, January 8. *vProfessor Anderson Stuart, who visited Berlin for the purpose of studying Dr Koch's process on behalf of New South Wales, South Aus» tralia, and JJJew Zealand, has been promised three bottles of lymph. The Miners' Conference at Birmini f ham is strongly in favor of the statutory eight hours system. The directors of the Scotch railway companies decline to accept the strikers' proposal for 10 hours' per day, and demand the unconditional surrender of the men. The strikers are appealing to t(A trades to support them in struggle. The clerks of the Post Office Savings Bank in London, who went out on strike, havo apologised, and will resume work. The Postinastorr -luiicral has promised to inflict only a "Jjht punishment for their behaviour. The directors of tho railway companies affected by the strike refuse to iccept mediation. Accidents aro frequent, foreign. Paris, January 9. In the Chamber of Deputies it i» onsiderr-d desirable to hold an mperial Commercial Congress this or iext year. Sr Petersuuug, January 9. Ihirty thousand 1 ' Russian JbWs are emigrating to' Brazil. >'• Beklin, January. 9. The German-Alistfaliiih Stfeainiship Company , nro Gilding ; a 4000-toJi steamer for the Colonial servicck They to despatch a' steamer to Austria lVirv tbiee \vctl;j.

ajjlr Professor Vircliow, the celebrated anatomist and antropologist, ||;is sceptical of the success of Dr Koch's i lymph. He states that twentv-ou; h icases of tuberculosis treated by Dr \ Koch's method endpd fatally, ami considers that many more experiments will be necessary before the lymph ' becomes effectual. Professor Virchow states that the on patients treated by "Dr Koch's process show that inoeulation lymph generated a new ' affection. Washixgtox, January 0. The President is in favour of free ll|i. •jptists here anticipate an settlement of the Sea fishery dispute. Mr J. G-. Blaine, Secretary of State, suggests that a commission should visit Alaska to settle the matter. A rumour is current that a revolution has broken out in the Bepublic of Chili, owing to the President, Don Jose de Balmaceda, refusing, to convene the National Congress. It is reported that the Shoshone tribe has captured and burnt the city of Podeltello, in Idaho State. Manilla, January 8. During the recent revolt the natives of Onen, one of the Caroline Islands, killed 300 foreigners, -and as the excitement has extended over tlie whole group, it is feared that a general massacre will result. January S. A temble of smallpox is raging throughosfthe Eepublic. Twenty thousand deaths are reported.

AUSTRALIANSydney, January 9. The,labor leaders are conferring with abolishing the system of middle-men. Auckland, January 9. In reply to the suggestions of federation received by the Trades and Labor Council from Sydney and Brisbane, that body decided to reply that it was considared inadvisable to federate with the Australian Unions, and that while sympathising with them, they intended in the future to work on their own lines, with the Control of the local funds under the district committees, who would frame rules to suit the special circumstances of the various districts. ,

The second cook oil board the Wakatipu, T. J. North, prosecuted Charles Jacobs, a steward, for assault. North stated in his evidence that his life on board the vessel had been one of continual misery, because nearly all od board were Unionists, and he was not. lie was. subjpcted to daily persecution, sometimes having to sleep on deck from fear. If something were not done he felt sure he would be drowned. The case was dismissed.