NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3781, 9 April 1891, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

31T0LI3S. London, April 6. The Victorian loan is quoted at a premium of § per cent. Investors are making enquiries with regard to the loan, and Sir Graham . Berry, AgentGeneral, expects that it will realise between £9B and £99.

SirE. C.N. Braddon (Agent-General for Tasmania), Sir Graham Berry (Victoria), Sir J. F. Garrick (Queensland), and Sir F. Dillon Bell (New Zealand) have been appointed to represent their respective Govem> ments at' the Postal Conference, which opens in Vienna in May. Mr Gladstone gives a most indignant denial to the statement made by Mr Parnell that a number of dynamiters visited him in Ha warden in 1886 and consulted him with reference to Home Rule proposals. News has been received that a rising of the Shans has taken place in Burmah. The British agent and his escort were drawn into an ambush, five of the party being killed and 11 wounded.

It is rumored that Italy and the United States will refer the difficulty with regard to the New Orleans lynching outrage to arbitration. General Booth, who has been suffering from influenza, is improving The Colonising Committee, set up by the House of Commons, has reported that the condition of the United Kingdom does not warrant a general scheme for emigration. April 7.

The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says that a conspiracy against the Czar has been discovered in that city. Isonomy, the well-known racehorse, is dead.

Of the apples sent by the Tongariro the Styx Company's (Christohuroh) Emperor Alexanders sold at 24s per bushel; Old Nonpareil, 21s; Kerry Pippins, 20s. When out cruising, the Australian auxiliary, steamer Tauranga's lower after deck magazine was constantly flooded. The water is believed to have found its way in through leaks in the side of the ship. A preliminary report will be issued by the Census Department in July. Dalgety and Co. have deolared a dividend of eight per cent. The Standard asserts that Earl Spencer really leads the Houee of Lords. FOREIGN. ■Washington, April 8. Negotiations for the settlement of the Behring Sea fishery dispute on a reciprocal basis have abruptly terminated owing to the absence of President Harrison. I April 7. 1 The Customs Department of the United States is charging double duty where wool is sorted before importation. Paris, April 7. The International Colonial Exhibition will be held in Paris in [1892. Berlin, April 7, Major Wisßman has left the German Colonial Service. St. Petersburg, April 7. M. Benderseff assets that he was i living in this city at the date of! Beltcliffe's murder. Sofia, April 7. Stambouloff has expelled the Russian Kavass, to whom the anonymous letter threatening; Prinoe Ferdinand and others was traced. April 6. 1.1. Bendereft, who is looked upon as one of the instigators of the assassination of M. Beltcliffe, Minister of Finance, now states that the murder was a revenge on the part of a certain section in Bulgaria for ihe execution of Major Panitza for conspiring to dethrone Prince Ferdinand. He also says that similar outrages will be continued at intervals until Russia frees Bulgaria. Calcutta, April 7.

Sharp fighting has taken place in Samana Mountains with the Mirongai tribe. Nine of the rebels were killed,

\ AUSTRALIANSydney, April 7. News from the Solomon Islands states that Mr Howard, manager of SteveDs' party, ofDunedin, has been murdered at Fiji Islands. While two boats containing recruits were proceeding to a French sohooner lying off Fiji Island, the recruits capsized the boats id the surf and swam aslion. They then barbarously murdered the boats crews as they landed, and it is believed the bodies of the unfortunate men were afterwards cooked and eaten. Adelaide, April 8. Mr j. JR. Cox, delegate of the Irish party under the leadership of Mr Justin McCarthy, has arrived here j from London.