NEWS BY CABLE

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3711, 15 January 1891, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE

ENGLISHLondon, January 1. Mr Balfour's Irish Fund has increased to £20,000. December 12. Parnell has been served with a writ for an alleged libel on 'Dr Tanner, member for Mid Cork. January 12. Tbe Duke of Somerset is dead. The Thames is icebound. There are eight inches of ice on the Serpentine in Hide Park, Dr Ma gee, Bishop of Peterborough, has been appointed Archbishop of York.

Sir G. Berry, Agent-General of Victoria, is reticent as to ibe date of the issue of the new loan. It is believed that the London and Westminster Bank, and other first holders of stock of previous Victor* ian loans, still retain a sum of three millions. The directors of the bank are dubious whether it is desirable to float the Victorian loan at present, and a syndicate dialing with colonial loans is decidedly hostile to it being placed on the market at once. On the other hand, some financial advisers consider the present a favourable opportunity, inasmuch as the large sums offered for the French loans have not been released.

Several minor accidents are reported on the Scotch railways. Some have been caused by the strikers locking the points. The North British Company are suing two hundred and twenty strikers for leaving iheir work without notice. A settlement of the railway strike is from present appearances very remote.

Dr Allen hasinspected the hospitals on the Continent, and seen Dr Koch's assistant, with whom details of the consumption remedy were didcussed He sails for the colonies to-day. January 18.

The death is announced of Baron Hausßmann, the re-constructor of Paris. General Booth has increased the sum which he considers necessary to have in hand from £IOO,OOO to £130,000 ; and he also asks that the whole of some one country for the purposes of the projected colony shall bo entirely placed under his control. A thaw has set in both in England and the continent,

FORESIGHT. Berlin, January 12. A. Bill is before the Prussian Lower House to restore the Guelph Fund to the Duke of Cumberland, the son of the ex-king of Hanover. It has been announced in the Prussian Diet that the secret cf Dr Koch's remedy will shortly be made public. Washington, January 12. Experiments are being made in different par's of the United States to test the feasability of producing rain at will by an explosion of dynamite among the clouds. There is a general feeling that should England and Canada go to war with the States over the Behriug Sea dispute, the latter ought not to resist. The bulk of the opinion is against spilling blood for the sake of a few sealskins. Ottawa, January 13. Canada has moved the American Courts to annul the seizure of a sealer captured in 1887. The motion of annulment has been made at the instance of the British Government with a view to settling the Behi ing Sea dispute. | New York, January 12.

By a collision on the Elevated railroad, an engine was thrown'into the street.

ViEttt A, January 12. An avalanche killed seventeen people at Livna, in Bosnia. Washington, January 13.

Advices from the North West report that the Indians are marching towards the Pine Ridge Agency, evidently with the intention of surrendering. The situation is critical, owing to the difficulty of disarming them, and it is feared that the former scenes of massacre may be enacted.

AUSTRALIANSydney, January 14. Wilgae, ledgeerkeper of the English and [Scottish Chartered Banki has been arrested in connection with the Bennet frauds ou a charge of falsify - ing liis accounts. He was apparently working in conjunction with Bennet. The longstanding dispute at Goulburu Cathedral between the Bishop and Captain Rossi, over the removal of the latter's family tablet, has been advanced a stage. Kossi has taken possession of the Cathedral for the. purpose of replacing the tablet, and is holding the sacred edifice against all comers. A nutnbar of the congrega" tion attempted to enter, but after a scuffle were repulsed. A fire is now raging furiously in the four-masted ship Talavera (Captain Robson) which arrived from London on December 81st, after an 85 days passage. The fire commenced under the fore hatch, but owing to the dense smoke the firemen were unable to grapple with the flames. The wboleof the lower hold between the fore and main patches is burning. The vessel and remaining portion of the cargo is valued at £35,000. It is owned by Messrs John Hardie and of Glasgow, and is an exceptionally fine specimen of architecture. ' ' Later. The fire on the Talavora has been extinguished, The Sydney portion of the cargo was discharged prior to the fire. The Newcastle consignment principally suffered. The fire is supposed to have originated in a shipment of wax matches. The flames burned fiercely in lower and 'tween decks. The remaining portion of her cargo has been _ aged by water, but it is to computo the exact