NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3764, 19 March 1891, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

•English-

London, March 16

Sir Joseph Whitwell Pease will interview Mr J B Patterson, formerly Commissioner of Trade and Customs in Mr T). Gillies' Government in Victoria, with reference to prohibiting the importation of opium into the Australian colonies.

Sir F N Broome, formerly Governor of Western Australia, relieves Sir Waller J S Sendall as Governor of Barbadoes for six months.

Judgment in the Ah Toy appeal will be given on Wednesday. It is believed the Court will rule that the colony has power to exclude aliens.

London, March 16

The United States man of war Gahna, was wrecked on the Hampshire ceast during the recent storm. The Marquis of Salisbury states that the action of the Portuguese authorities in seizing the steamer Countess of Carnarvon was unjustifiable, unless the vessel.was landing arms on the Portuguese territory.

March 17,

Obituary—Sir J. Bazalgette, C.8., Engineer to the Metropolitan Board of Works. Baron de Worms has issued a circular despatch regarding the attitude of Queensland in not ratifying the agreement as to sharing the expense of an auxiliary squadron, Mr Justice Stephen, under medical advice, has resumed his duties on the Bench.

Intelligence has reached here that the steamer Port Jackson, which left Newcastle (N.S.W), for London, on 2nd January, ran ashore on Perim Island, off the coast of Arabia. She subsequently floated off withoui having sustained any injury.

The steamer Abergeldio, bound from Sydney to Dunkirk, collided with the steamer Fifeshire, which was on a voyage from Port Chalmers to Lnndon, off Gravesend to-day. The amount of damage has not been ascertained.

The steamer Roxburgh Castle, 1235 tons, was run into by another vessel off the Scilly Isles, and foundered, 22 of those on board being drowned. Sir. J. Ferguason, in reply to a question, said the Portuguese authorities accused the owners of the steamer Countess of Carnarvon of smuggling,

Sir J W Pease intends to use the information obtained from Mr Patterson regarding the opium traffic as arguments in the House of Commons against the Indian revenue derived from opium.

Mr W H Smith has refused to allow women reporters in the House of Commons.

It is reported that the libel actions brought by Sir W Camming will result in an apology being tendered without an * attempt to prove the charges, leaving, the jury to assess the damages. It is said this course will be taken owing to the pressure on the pait of the Prince of Wales.

Writs of habeas corpus have been granted for the purpose of enabling Messrs Dillon and O'Brien to appear as witnesses for the defence in the cases of Dalton and ethers at Cork on Saturday.

The arbitrators in the Newfoundland dispute meet at Brussels immediately. The recent advance on Tokar is regarded as a part of a plan for the recapture of the Soudan and an advance on Khartoum, to counteract the Italian advance on the Nile.

The press is unanimous in the opinion that Mr Parnell is conducting the campaign with energy and effen, contrasting strongly with the spiritless display of his antagonists.

FOREIGN.

Paris, March 17,

The French Ambassador at Berlin has been recalled. This step is believed to have some connection with the recent visit of the Dowager Empress Victoria of Paris.

Berne, March 17.

The Swiss Federal Government has adopted the principle of a standing army, and will fortify St Gothard and other tunnels.

Cairo, March 17.

News has been received from Khartoum that a magazine exploded at Omdurman, and a hundred persons were killed.

Calcutta, March 16.

Upwards of 200,000 Hindoos took part in a grand religious service in this city. Advantage was taken of the opportunity to protest against the alteration in the age of consent. The proceedings caused great exoitement in the city. Washington, March 17.

The American Press condemns Mr Parnell's recent manifesto, and advises the public not to support his mission. The Mafia Sooiety has threatened to poison the family of Parkinson, who is said to have been the chief leader of the lynching party, and some of the members of the society have also avowed their intention of stabbing Parkinson to death. Mr J G Blaine, who has been in communication with King Hubert of Italy on the subject-of the outrage, has asked him to await the report which will be furnished by the Governor of Louisiana. New York, March 17.

The influenza epidemic is spreading in Chicago, and fully 50,000 of the residents are affected by it, It is estimated that one tenth of tbe Chicago police are also affected. An Italian newspaper, published in this city, threatens that a million Italians, resident in the State of Louisiana, will organise vendetta. Washington, March 17.

Most of the patients who escaped from the lunatic asylum at Nashville when the building caught fire have been rt capturedPublic settlement fn the States sustains the conviction felt in Nsw Orleans that the jury lyere corrupted. Tlj§ President deplores the outbreak of popular iefsliyg, and will fcake measures to prevent fyrtbep bloodshed,

The Mayor of New Orleans declares that ParkißSOß, who is alleged to b chief leader of the lynqhing party was quite right in the aotion taken, In explanation, Parkinson states that while the Mafia Society confined its action to killing its own members ' but directly they noouu, . • fy«onessy Amerimurdered Detecti*© " •

can liberty was endangered. The New York newspapers reiterate the statement that the jury were bribed, and state they have no doubt but that the Sicilians were guilty of the crime of which the jury acquitted then. New Orleans, March 16. The foreman of the jury has been expelled from the city. AUSTRALIANSydney, March 17. A boat capsized in ShoalhaVen

River this afternoon, three of the occupants, Winifred and Maud Griffiths and Alice Culley, being drowned. March 18. In connection with the importation of Professor Eoch's tuberculine attention has been drawn to the fact that under the Animal Infections Act it is unlawful to introduce into the colony micro-organisms, or auy medium impregnated with tliem, without the consent of the Minister of lands being obtained.