NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3710, 14 January 1891, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

ENGLISH. London, January 12. By a collision between two passenger steamers in the Firth of Forth thirteen persons were drowned. The fund organised by Mr Balfour and the Earl of Zetland for the relief of the distressed families in Ireland now amounts to LIB.OOO. Lord Carrington subscribed LIOO. The position of the railway strike is unchanged. Seamen threaten to block the collieries which continue to supply coal to the railwavs. Accidents still continue, W At a meeting in Limerick Mr PaK nell challenged Mr Gladstone to produce the memorandum of the interview with him at iiawarden. He declared that the Liberal leaders had no land policy, and that a fatal mistake had been committed in allowing the Radioals to abandon the peasant proprietary clause in the Irish Land Purchase Bill, thus leav-* ing the Irish people to their own fate and retarding a solution of the difficulty. Of late he himself believed that the land question ought to be settled concurrently with Home Rule, or left with an Irish Parliament to deal with; otherwise it would, be impossible to govern Ireland without stringent and strong coercion. Without a settlemeut of the land question, Home Rule, instead of becoming a source of strength and freedom, would be a sham, ending in the resumption of the Government by the Imperial Parliament. Referring to the proposals submitted at ihe Hawarden interview, he considered them distinctly worse than the provisions of the Bill introduced by Mr Gladstone id 1886 for toe future Government of Ireland. M r Par nell stated he was willing to retire if assured his opponents would promise four points, viz.:—(l) A charter for the settlement of the land, or power to the people to settle it themselves; (2) power to secure the interests of laborers and artizans ; (8) control of the Irish police; and (4) to concede the appointment of judges and magistrates in Ireland. The French loan was covered six times in London, in addition to sixteen and a half times in Paris.

i fiealey considers it liopeleßS to parley with Pamell's section any longer. . Mr Parnell was received with enthusiasm at Limerick. In the course of his speech he stated that he was satisfied with the result of his conference at Boulogne with .Mr O'Brien, and would retire, provided the Liberals would give an assurance cf the intentions. The Recorder at Plymouth has decided that strikes are illegal if they are conducted with a view to compelling the employers not to give employment to non-Uniooists. The North British Railway Company is more hampered with the strike than any other of the companies and the strikers are hopeful of gaining the day. FOREIGN. Berlin, January 12, It is reported in this city that the Emperor William is arranging for a conference to discuss the question of general disarming throughout Europe, Washington, January 18. Mr J. G. Blaine is demanding reparation from the Spanish Government for outrages committed by the natives of the Caroline Islands on American residents.

Washington, January 12. The Indian tribes who surrendered to the United States troops have refused to give up possession of their arms, and it is feared that an attempt to forcibly disarm them would causa bloodshed,

Paris, l anuary 12* The French loan o £84,000,00® was covered sixteen times over.

Crowds of people oongregated round the doors of the Minister of Finance's office all the night previous to the day on which the loan was to be floated.

Rome, January 12. Experiments with Dr Koch's cure at various hospitals in Italy hays given the most gratifying results. AUSTRALIANMelbourne, January 12. Various estimates were made at the late Federal Conference of the loss that would be sustained by the colonies if intercolonial freetrade were established, ranging from half a million to one million for eaoli colony. The leading customs officer in Victoria has, however, compiled a return based on the year 1889, showing tho total loss for all, ex. eluding New Zealand, at only £890,000. J Obituary—Mr Musgrave, the well known colonial actor. The imports for the year were £22,952,000, a decrease of L 1,450,000. The exports were Lia.227,000, anincroaso 0fL192,000 on tho previous year, Perth, January 13. A destructive cyclone passed over Uie district in the vicinity of Lagrango Bay yesterday. Starting about 7 miles inland, it travelled at a rapP - I rate, uprooting numbers of telegraph poles in its track. A great amount of damage is reported, and one station lost a thousand sheep and forty head of cattle, Adelaide, January 18. The Intercolonial Freetrade Commission has recommended the adoption a of intercolonial freetrade on a basis of ® a uniform tariff, and regard such as &. corollary of Australian Federation.