NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3753, 6 March 1891, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

ENGLISH. Londox, March 4. The Hen, J. Stansfield's (M.P. for Halifax) motion for one man one vote was negatived by a majority of 102. The Hawk says that Lord Onslow will probably succeed Lord Hopetouu as Governor of Victoria. H. M. Stanley intends to visit Australia in October. Mr otansfield's motion proposed that the only qualification for a voter should be three month's residence. Mr Gladstone supported the motion, urging that a plural vote was a pure lottery.

The World asserts that the anxiety of the Emperor of Germany to conciliate France is due to distrust of Russia and Austria.

FOREIGN. Lisbon, March 4. The rebellion at Bossia, in SeneGambia, has been quelled and the rebels punished. 4. The Budget Comniitflk advised that three million francs 9e voted to relieve farmers from the effeots of the recent frosts'. Berlin, March 4.

Tne North German Gazette says that the frontier regulations will be made heavier if the behaviour of the French renders it necessary. The Emperor states that he is determined to remedy the crying injustice under which the laboring classes suffer, but he disapproves of irresponsible agitators. Ottawa, March 4. Mr Laurier states that independence is preferable to annexation. Both sides now expect a majority of thirty. Washington, March 3. A compromise has been effected between the Senate and Congress respecting the subsidy to the Hawaiian cable, by which it is agreed that the United States shall subsidise the cable to the extent of £36,000 annually, providing the Hawaiian Government contribute £IOO.OOO. Valparaiso, March 4. The battalions of Government troops at, Pisagua .shot the officers and joined the rebels.

Family Brawl.

A Sarcastic Lottor.

At the Supreme Court, Napier, the following letter from a wife to her husbaud, charged with desertion, was read:— "My dearest, darling, loving, loving husband—Just a few lines, my own loved one, to let you know that I have bested you again. 1 have put the set on dear- -again from getting the children adopted. Now you must try some other scheme old boy. My darling loved one, Ido like you so —you don't know the love 1 have for you in my heart, my dear. You can't imagine, my own pretty pretty one. I am so glad I have been able to put the set on your sending them to the Industrial School, and now again I have put the ' cooker' on you from having them adopted. You must keep them, you know, my dearest hubby, or else leave the colony altogether. You must and shall provide for them, whether you like it or not. Now, you must try some other way of spiting me about them. If you can't revenge yourself on me, I suppose you think you will show your spite on the children, but thank God I have put the set on it all. You should have treated me as a man should have treated his wife, and I would never have left you nor the children. You cur, you longlegged wool stealer. My own darling I hope you will feel relieved when this is read to you, because I know you are so ignorant someone else must read it for you. Just get someone to look at the Post to-night, and see what I have put in about the children. Get them adopted if you dare, my man, without my consent, and see <! I don't make an example of you. Now just you try it my beauty. Don't forget to have the paper read to you to-night. Good bye, three —'■"• fib. of starvation plastered up penny«,*,.. ■■-—t Believe me against a boiler uou*. . —'fa to remain your loving, loving \\n.~, Sarah. lam dying for the want of ' seeing your ghostly, ugly face. !

To morrow we shall show dress lengths of summer mohair;, reduced from 5s Cd N>2s ild, suinmfir checks reduced from 7s 6d to 33 lid, summer flakes reduced from 8s Cd to 4s lid, summer twe-ds reduced from 12s to (is 6d at "The Fair 1 ' Te Aro House.

Masterton-Opaia Jockey Olulj. The following nominations have been received for the handicaps in the Hack Race Meeting to to held in connection with tho Masterton-Opaki Jockey Club on St. Patrick's Da) : Handicap Hurdles. Acolyte, Too Slow, Timothy, Fuuanui, Honest John, Depression. The Joker (late Pukctapu), Melos, Speculator, Roger. St. Patrick's Handicap. Ngaro, Slave Girl, Duke d'Amour, Homai, Dolly, Sweet Dream, Olive, Depression, Cock o'-the-Walk, The Joker, Brookfield, Hibernian.Porester, Verbose, Ben Bolt, Ahi, Mahara. Welter Handicap. Ngara, Slave Girl, Too Slow, Duke d'Amour. Homai, Dolly, Revolution, Escalade, Depression, Roaney, Cock* o'-the Walk, The Joker, Hibernian, Maori Peer, Sneak, Forester, Fauauni. Flyivg Handicap. Perotfci, Duke d'Amour, Dolly, Right Bower, Sweet Dream, Ida, Clive, Wee Jim, Coquette, Carier, Brook Geld, Hibernian, Wailiora, Maori Peer, Seaboy, Verbose, Mahara, Empress.