NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3793, 24 April 1891, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

(Press Association). ENGLISH. LoNroN, April 21. The report that the Third Grenadiers had refused to parade is denied. It is reported that Germany will cling to England in regard to the West African territory and South Congo. A dissolution of Parliament in the autumn is assured. The liabilities of (Jollyns and Co.. are £42,000, and the assets £28,000. Sir J F Garrick, Agent General for Queensland, has sent an agent to Piedmont and Lombardy, in Italy, to select agriculturalists who are experts in fruit growing, and who are willing to emigrate to Queensland. He proposes to send 850 men to that colony from Genoa at the end of June. In addressing the annual meeting of the Primrose League to-day tb.6 Marquis of Salisbury said that prosperity and tranquility were resulting from resolute Government in Ireland and he condemned the practice of the hierarchy in Ireland in attempting to secure political control in that country. The Times eulogises Mr Pamell for supporting the Irish Land Purchase I BUI. April 22.

Mr John Redmond, M.P., addressed a meeting at Dublin to-day, when he declared that the National League and Plan of Campaign would collapse for want of funds, and said that seceders from Mr Parnell would be responsible for it. The Trustees Liability Bill which the Government propose to introduce in the House of Commons will widen the scope of the investment of trust funds by trustees. Mr William Lidderdale has been re-elected Governor of the Bank of England. General Booth has been left a legacy of seventy thousand pounds by a widow. Mr De Cobain writes that he is prepared to return to meet the charges j provided his friends advise him that it is necessary to do so. Tne World considers the failure of the Victorian loan primarily due to the dissolution of the Westgarth syndicate, and that the market was unfit owing to the after effects of the Barings' disaster. It adds that the lesson is one which Victoria should mark and inwardly digest. The English press is unanimous in the opinion that a lesson should be taught Portugal for its action in Mashonaland. The Daily Telegraph insists that it is the duty of the Marquis of Salisbury to send a British fleet to Lisbon to demand satisfaction. The Government of Capetown has forwarded a protest against the inaction of the Imperial Government with regard to Portuguese action in Mashonaland. The Marquis of Salisbury has demanded from the Portuguese Government an explanation of the event, and should it be unsatisfactory, will insist on reparation. . The incident in regard to the Brd Grenadiers at Chelsea is now looked upon as of a very trivial nature. The Standard says it is untrue that Portugal is conniving at the Boers' expedition to Mashonaland. The name of the widow who left] General Booth a legacy of £70,000 ' is Mrs Bell.

FOREIGN, Paris, April 22. The Courts have confirmed the resolution passed by the Council of Foreign Colonies permitting colonising trading companies in the Pacific to employ convict labor. Rome, April 22. The Italian Government is expelling Anarchists from Italy with a view to preventing troubb on May Day. Berlin, April 22. The warehouses of the Sandthor Quay, Hamburg, have been destroyed by fire. The losses exceed 2,000,000 marks, Lisbon, April 22. Intelligence has been received of a serious rising at Bissao, a seaport in Senegambia. Six thousand natives attacked four hundred Portuguese native troops, and defeated them. The casualties on the Portuguese side were four officers and seventy-one men killed, and twentytwo wounded. Reinforcements are to be sent from here to assist in queUing the rising. Capetown, April 22. The republic which the Boers are forming in Manicaland has been under way for four years, and will be proclaimed on the 3rd July. The Boer expedition includes 1000 Cape colonists, and represents the Africander band which now distrusts Rhodes' Imperial schemes. The expedition will cross the Limpopo on the 3rd June, and the Republic will be declared on the following day. The Republic will be established on the basis of a treaty granted to the Boer farmers ten years ago. The Africander band is now said to be disposed to favor Mr Cecil Rhodes' suggestion for averting a collision between the Boers expedition and the South African Company. There is great excitement at the .Cape owing to the report that the Marquis of Salisbury will only r3monstrate with Portugal for its. action in Mashonaland, and the Capetown Times hints that it would be advisable to lower the British Standard in South Africa. Washington, April 22. It is probable that Mr J. G. Blaine, Secretary of State, will be nominated! for the Presidency. Kingston, April 22 The Jamaica Exhibition, which was opened on 27tb January by Prince George of Walfig, js a failure, ' ' NEw'YoßK, ; April2:s. Tne Italian Consul at New Orleans insists that all of those lynched except two were Itallian subjects. On Monday no less than twenty murders and suicides were reported to the city police. St John's, April 22. Men of war are preventing two hundred fishing craft in fortune Bay from supplying" bait to French fishermen. "