NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3752, 5 March 1891, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

ENGLISH. London, March 2. The man Saddler, arrested on suspicion of being Jack the Ripp.er, has been discharged. Murietta and Co. are converting their business? into a joint stock company. The Wesley centenary was celebrated by a special week of servises throughout the country. Archdeacon Farrar delivered an eloquent speech at the unveiling of the statue of Wesley. A London gambler troke the bank at the Casino of Monte Carlo, win • ning seven hundred thousand pounds. The agitation against raising the age of consent is increasing. The Berlin correspondent of the Globe says that great uneasiness is felt at the Emperor's threat to smash all opposition to his policy. General Von Caprivi signifies his intention to resign in the autumn. March 3. In the House of Commons, Admiral Colomb referred to the growth of the colonial oversea commerce. Sir W. V. Harcourt ridiculed the alarmist contention that in the event of war trade would be transferred to a neutral flag. It would be impossible for any nation to maintain a navy so large as to ensure absolute security to its mercantile marine. The construction of the telephone line between London and Paris is finished. Sir W. Cumming claims LSOOO damages against each of the five defendants in the libel action. The Times has been making an exhaustive enquiry into the capacity of the navy for a sudden mobilisation as the result of which it declares the standard of efficiency has not been obtained. Many ships are useless, and there is a want of guns. Miss Frances Chew, of Auckland, has been admitted as a violin scholar to the Royal College of Music.

The committee on* Trade Treaties report that the proposed French tariff prohibits import of a number of British woollens, worsted, and other textile manufactures, and injures trade in a number of other articles. The report of the conversion of Munetta and Go.'s business into a company is premature. If the Australian colonies will afford Bupport to the evicted tenants, apart from the question of leadership, other delegates will be sent to assist Mr Cox. The opposition section is dismayed at the success of Mr Parnell's campaign iu Ireland, and fear he will secure a majority.

Mr Farnell intends to despatch Messrs J. O'Kelly, W. Eedmond, John O'Connor and Harrison to America.

FOREIGN.

Madrid, March 8,

The Queen of Spain, attended by the little King, opened the Cortes today. The speech from the throne denounced commercial treaties. Pabis, Mar.ch 3. Prince Napoleon is improving in health*. Frosts in France have ruined five million acres of crops, and oaused a loss estimated at a hundred million francs.

Figaro states that the Queen is pleased with the treatment of the Empress Victoria in Paris, and intends to spend two days in the city on her way to the South of France. Hong Kong. March 3. The Chinese Government objects to Mr Blair, the new American Minister at Pekin, on the ground of his activity against Chinese immigration to America. Washington, March 3. The Senate ha,s passed the Mail Subsidies Bill approved by the Lower House. Shares in the Pacific Company have been fluctuating violently while the fate of the Bill i was uncertain. It is estimated the Company will receive half a million dollars annually. The town of Ijuma, in Arizona, has been destroyed by floods. Fourteen hundred persons were rendered, homeless. A hundred were drowned, and the country is a lake for 00 miles. Berlin, March 2. The Emperor is represented ad incensed at the refusal by the French of his overtures for peace, and is said to be now awaiting his opportunity to chastise the French. Ottawa, November 2. Sir R. Cartwrigbt advocates freotrado all ovei< the oontinent, and full reciprocity with the United States. The Canadians, he contends, are not prepared to abandon political freedom for commercial advantages. Sir J. McDonald and Mr Tupper make the Canadian-Australian mail line a prominent plank in their programme, and are in hopes the Federal Convention will recommend the granting of a subsidy to it.

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Sydney, Match 3. Mr Pound, the metallurgist for whom a warrant was issued on the charge of stealing platinum, valued at £6OOO, the property of the Otway Ranges Platinum Company, has been arrested. The B,ev. Mr Collie, of Newtown, has been elected Moderator of the Presbyterian Assembly, and the Eev. Mr Brown, late rjecretary to the Fqreiga Missions, ha.s been elected President pf the Wesleyan Conference.