NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3825, 2 June 1891, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

ENGLISH.

London, May 80.

Mr Gerald Balwin has won the Pollock scholarship for physiology at St George's Hospital. H.M. ships Rmgarooma and Tauranga, two of the new cruisers for Australia, havo left Malta for the colonial station, and a third, the Katoomba, has arrived at Malta en route.

The Archbishop of Canterbury is suffering from influenza, Additiooal Birthday honors are as follows:—Judge Windeyer and the Hon. John Forrest, Premier of Western Australia, created a E.O.M.

The gallant seamanship of Captain Kane, of H.M.S. Gailiope, daring the severe hurricane at Apia, in March, 1889, has been recognised by Her Majesty, and he has been created a Companion of .the Bath. Leading financiers in the city fear there will be a long continnance of dear monay.

The Economist states that if the colonies wish to depend upon the public lor floating their loans the present system of inviting tenders must be abandoned, and it considers there is no reason why the Queensland loan should not baye been subscribed if it hai been kept open for two months at the fixed price of 92, and provisions made for interest to accrue from the date of subscription. " The leading bankers have agreed lo meet when the occasion rises, and decide with the Bank of England the minimum rate of discount for three months bills, May 31 The Admiralty is negociating with the Client Steamship Company for manning and working Indian troop* ships. FOREIGN,

St Petersburg, May 30. Thirty thousand Jews have been ordered to leave Warsaw. The Czar and Czarina have arrrived at Moscow to attend the French Exhibition, notwithstanding that three days before it opened four large boxes of dynamite had been discovered, and were evidently intended to be used in a plot against the life of the Czar. The Customs Department of the exhibition allowed the boxes to pass the French and Russian frontiers unopened, as they believed them to oontain exhibits of machinery. It is rumoured that a mine has been discovered leading from the residence of the Governor of Moscow across the road along which the Czar would proceed to the exhibition j also that a second mine had been found under the railway line. Extraordinary pre* cautions have been taken against attempts on His Majesty's life, even the triumphal arches being dismantled in the search for explosives. A feeling of terror exists in Moscow, and the owners ot all the houses commanding a view of the square where the Czar proposes to review tho troops have been ordered to close their windows.

Washington, May 80.

The Freuch aggression ia St George's Bay, Newfoundland, is regarded here as an invasion of American rights under the Anglo American treaty. An unsuccessful attempt has been made to steal the body of the late Mr P. T. Barnum, who died on the 7th ult.

May 81. A son of President Harrison declares that his father will decline re falection to the Presidency. Ottawa, May 80.

Sir J. Macdonald. the Premier, is paralysed. It is believed that Sir J. S. D. Thompson, Minister of Justice, will reconstruct the Cabinet.

Valparaiso, May 80.

It is reported that the Chilian rebel steamer Itata, after which the United States cruiser had a fruitless chase, is making the voyage to Melbourne.