NEWS BY CABLE

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3780, 8 April 1891, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE

English. London, April 6. Mr W. 11. Smith lias refused to aocept Mr M. Davitt as the representative of Mr Justin McCarthy's party on tbe Government Labour Commission. It is now reported that no petition will be lodged against the return of Alderman Oollury for Sligo. Mr Justin Stephen has retired. A ooal trust is being formed to control the output in the ohief districts of the North. Speaking at Dublin, Mr Parnell declared that the Liberals were notorious for making political prisoners and the Tories'for liberating them, Foment Berlin, April 6. General von Oaprivi, Chancellor, states that the South West African j colonies will be ceded to Great Britain j unless Anglo-Hamburg syndicate obtains the necessary capital. The Triple Alliance has been renewed. Paris, April 5. The police have taken steps to pre- | vent General Booth erecting refuge houses in the city. , Home, April 6. Marquis Rudini has ordered Baron de Fava to postpone his departure from Washington. Washington, April 5, President Harrison is gratified at the peaceful tone now adopted by the Marquis Rudini, the Italian Premier, with reference to the lynohing of Sicilians at New Orleans. April 6. The departure of Baron de Fava, Italian Minister, has been delayed on account of illness. It is felt that owing to the bad character of the men who were lynched at Hew Orleans, and the circumstances which gave rise to the outrage, that the incident only requires the recognition of the principle of international justice. .Only two of the men concerned were Italian subjects, and both- of them escaped, I . Buenos April 6. The Government have? decided to issue paper money on' a metallic basis.

April 6.' The police have prohibited the Salvation Army from assembling for worship within the city, *»d the authorities have refused to recognise them as a religious body. New Yobk, April 6. : Severe floods have taken place at Ohio, and numbers of families are homeless. Twenty-tivo miles ol railway line have been submerged., ; Influenza is ravaging Illinois, Wisconsin, and ■ Efforts have been made to induce some two thousand Indians to enrol in the infantry of the United Army but have proved unsuccessful. The Indians prefer to join the cavalry regimens.

AUSTRALIANMelbourne, April 6, Mr Hayter, Government statist, estimates the Victorian wheat crop for the past season at 18,008,226 bushels. April 7. The wheat estimate published by Mr Hayter has disorganised the market, and there is a probability that millers will have to look to Now Zea - * land and California for supplies, aB the surplus ha 3 either been exported or contracted lor, v'