NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3765, 20 March 1891, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

ENGLISH. London, March 18. In a paper read before the Colonial Institute, Sir E N Braddon, Agentgeneral for Tasmania, urged the Crofters to develop the Tasmanian and deep sea fisheries, and he also advocated the export of timber and apples from Tasmania to Great Britain. The Australian auxiliary squadron will assemble at Spithead about the middle of April for the purpose of making trial trips and testing their torpedo equipment. At the same time the vessels will be inspected by the Colonial authorities and the Admiralty. The Supreme Court has granted a writ of habeas corpus in the case of Mrs Jackson, who wa3 forcibly abducted by her husband. Owing to a formal difficulty in connection with the reduced cable tariff between Great Britain and the colonies, its inauguration has been postponed until the Ist May, and may possibly be later. Telephonic communication between London and Pans has been successfully carried out.

Counsel for the defendants in the libel action brought by Colonel Sir W. Cumming deny that a compromise has been effected, and state that the cases will be defended to the end.

Dr Magee was to-day enthroned as Archbishop of York. Speaking at Hastings, Mr Gladstone declared that the Government had presented a fictitious surplus in the Budget. He commented favorably on the foreign policy adopted by Lord Salisbury. The forecast of the Colonising Committee's report recently telegraphed, was ail accurate one. The committee now report that while the bulk of colonial opinion is adverse to State-assisted emigration, it is now expedient to recommend it. They would not, however, oppose any seheme in that direction if the individual colonies interested concurred. The Financial News states that the firm of Messrs Cristobal de Murrieta & Co., South American and Spanish merchants, of Old Broad-street, has been converted into a joint stock company, with a capital of two millions in debentures. FOREIGN. Honolulu, March 18. Mr Parker has succeeded in forming a Ministry. Lisbon, March 18. All Portuguese officers on leave have been urgently summoned to return to their duty. Natal, March 18. The Portuguese authorities have released the steamer Countess of Carnarvon and crew.