NEWS BY CABLE.
ENGLISH,
London, June 17.
It is reported that the syndicate who took up the balance of the Queensland loan were allowed a discount of A' 50,000, which practically reduces the average price below 88. The re hearing of the WiedemannWalpole case resulted in the plaintiff recovering J-800 from Mr Walpole for breach of promise and libel. June 18. Mr Spurgeon is ill. He was suffering from influenza, and had a relapse. Fever is raging among the crews of the Mediterranean fleet. Some 200 men are prostrate. It is reported that Russian church agents.engaged in proselytysing work are employing wholesale bribery in the form of gifts of lands to induce Armenians and Syrians to embrace the orthodox Greek faitu. The Liberal leaders look on Sir 0. Dilke's return to public life with disfavor.
Mr DeOobain has preferred a request for a Committee of the House of Commons to investigate the evidence that can be adduced against him. The Princess of Wales invites all English women to subscribe to the fund for Mrs Grimwood, the Manipur heroine.
Captain Tripone, convicted of disclosing the secrets of the War Office, was sentenced to five years and a fine of £l2O.
June 18. Captain Tripone appeal against his sentence.
The bank rate of discount is 8 per cent.
At the annual meeting of share* holders of the new Oriental Bank a dividend at the rate of 6 per cent per annum was declared. In their report the directors admitted that the bank had lost the sum of £12,000 over the Gatling Gun Company, and there were possible losses of £BO,OOO in Melbourne and £70,000 in Singapore.
In the House of Commons, the Bill providing for marriage with a deceased wife's sister has been withdrawn.
Professor Sterling's new form of Australian marsupial was exhibited at the Royal Sooiety to-day and pronounced to be a remarkable mammal.
FOREIGN.
Berne, June 18.
The Swiss Government has been granted unlimited credit to supply the needs of the sufferers by the terrible train accident near Basle.
The work of recovering the bodies from the river Birse is now proceeding.
Madrid, June 18,
The Spanish Government is issuing 2 loan of two fifty million pesetas at 4 per cent.
Calcutta, June 17. The trial of the younger Senapati has begun. Port-au-Prince, June 18.
Another revolution has been taken place in Hayti. During an emeute President Hippolyte was killed. Paris, June 17. M. Turpin, the inventor of the explosive known as melinite, which is used in the French army for charging shells, and been sentenced to a year's imprisonment and a fine of L2OO on the charge of selling the secret to Sir W. Armstrong and Co.
June 18,
In addition to Captain Tripone, two Frenohmen, who alleged to he agents of Sir William Armstrong and Co. of Paris, were sentenced to fire years' imprisonment each on a charge of disclosing the secrot of the nianu. facture of melinite. New Ypbk, June 18.
The temperature is 100 in the shade. Several deaths have already been recorded from sunstroke.
Washington, June 17
Four hundred houses have been destroyed by fire at Seabright in New Jersey. Hundreds of people were rendered homeless.
A train fell from a bridge into tbe Coom Bapids, lowa, and several persons were killed. A rain storm has washed away Hilton, in Illinois, and destroyed the crops in the surrounding district.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3837, 20 June 1891, Page 2
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