NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3756, 17 March 1891, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

ENGLISH

London, March 8.

Yesterday the . bank at Monte Carlo lost a million francs. A group of Englishmen playing at one table won 700,000 francs, and the banß was broken three times in succession.

The Merchandise Marks Bill provides that a Customs entry farm must bear the trade description of goods entered thereon. March 15.

At a meeting of the Bank of England shareholders, a profit of three quarters of a million was reported, and a dividend of 5f per cent, was declared. Mf Lidderdale, Governor of the bank, stated the liabilities amounted to twenty one millions, and the assets to twenty., five. The .outlook was hopeful. The House of Commons will adjourn on March 24. Earl Granville has been seriously ill, bat is now improving. The feeling is turning in favor of Sir C. Dlike, and attacks on him are being deprecated. Buffalo Bill intends to bring some of the captured Sioux with him to England. March 14.

A great Imperial Federation meeting was held at Leeds to-day. Lord Brassey urged the appointment of a Koyal Commission to enquire into the advisability of a customs union with the colonies and advised that an Imperial Conference on a combined system of defence should be held at an early date; also, that an advisary council to the Colonial Office should be appointed or the colonies admitted to a share in the conduct of Imperial affairs.