NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3716, 21 January 1891, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

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ENGLISH. London, January 19. Aristotle's treatise on the Constitution of Athens has been discovered in papyrus manuscript, and secured for the British Museum for £3OOO. Sir J. Hannen, Divorce Court Judge, has been appointed to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in succession to Sir Barnes Peacock. It is proposed to hold a World's Labour Exhibition this year, at which operatives from every trade can be seen at their work. Messrs Dillon and O'Brien have arrived at Havre. Mr Balfour's Irish Fund has now reached £30,000. Mr Dillon supports O'Brien as leader. Mr Parnell, speaking at Tralee, said he had arrived at an agreement with Mr O'Brien a fortnight ago, and it was only his opponents who prevented a solution of the present difficulty. This is the ninth successive week of the frost.

Paris, January 19.

Successful experiments have been made at Nanfcees by the induction of goat's blood in cases of tuberculosis. The river Seine is frozen, and skating is indulged in. Naples, January 19. Owing to the heavy fall of snow railway tralfic is stopped. Constantinople, January 19; The Sultan has granted an amnesty to the Armenians who were diiven to revolt by the outrages of the Kurds.

Washington, January 19, Secretary Blaine proposes a complete system of exchange with Canada, but Sir J. Macdcnald favors partial reciprocity only. The press support the former. Valpraiso, January 10. Nearly the whole of the Chilian array have joined the rebels. The blockade of the coast has paralysed trade, and provisions have risen to famine prices. The rebellious fleet is menacing Valparaiso. The revolutionary movement is spreading in the interior.