NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3836, 19 June 1891, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

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•'v » London, June 16." The Bishop of Lincoln's case has been adjourned to 2nd July. The World requests Lord George Hamilton, First Lord of the Admiralty, to state in the House ot Commons why the wives-of officers on the Sydney station are hot to" be allowed to return along with their husbands in the troopship Himilaya.

In order to remove the cloud which hangs orer the Argentine finances, a movement is on foot among European financiers to establish a new National Bank, and fund the provincial loans. The Queen has accepted a hamper of New Zealand frozen game.

The Irish Land Purchase Bill has been read a first time in the' House of

Lords.

An address has been signed by 10,000 residents in the Forest of Dean constituency, congratulating Sir Charles Dilke on his determination to re-enter- public life. Two hundred and forty-nine deaths occurred in London last week from influenza.

It is expected the bank rate ol discount will be raised to 3 per cent on Thursday.

In the House of Commons, Sir W. V. Harcourt moved for additional particulars regarding the events which led to the massacre at Manipur. Sir J. Gorst assented to their being furnished, and repudiated the assusation that Mr Commissioner Quinton had been guilty of treachery. Mr Stanhope said if the smallness of the force accompanying the Commissioner had been known, the Government would have discouraged his proceeding to extremities. They disapproved of the attempt to arrest jthe Senapati at the durbar. PORBICHT. Roue, June 17. v The eruption of Mount Vesuvius is ceasing. Beblin, June 16. Severe snowstorms are falling in the Hartz Mountains. ' Vienna, June 16. ' Russian spies have been arrested on the Hungarian frontier. Documents were found on them showing the strength of the Austrian forces in Galicia. Capetown, June 17. Sir H. Loch opened Parliament to-day.

; Ottawa, June J. 6.; V The Hon-J. Abbot;; has formed- a Cabinet.' Mr Chapleau, who refused 1 at first, has since consented to join. St Johns, June 16.

French warships are vigorously enforcing treaty rights in Newfoundland.

Valparaiso, June 17; " " //' President Balmaceda's squadron 1 has bombarded.; Iquique Tf? fand. Autofagasta. It.. has also occupied Tocopella and Ohamarl, silencing.the batteries, and spiking the guns at the latter place. , • ;.. V ! Calcutta, June 17. ' The Senapati appeals. to the Governor-General ot India against the sentence of death passed by the v court martial. " ' '*