NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3838, 22 June 1891, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

ENGLISH,

London, June 18.

The Federation League intends to accept Lord Salisbury's challenge to formulate a scheme for the federation of the Empire. ' Of a total of £127,000 subscribed towards the Plan of Campaign, £3OOO is unaccounted for, £20,000 was granted to tenants, £47,000 went in fees to lawyers, and barristers, and £40,000 was spent on New Tipper ary,

June 19. Canon Legge has been appointed Bishop of Lichfield. It is denied on authority that the Prince of Wales was in any way connected in the election of Mr Arthur Stanley Wilson, one of the defendants in the bacjarat case, as a member of the Marlborough Club. FOREIGN Viesna, June 18. The Austrian Government is coa« lescing with the German Liberal secI tion of the Eeicbsrath. i June 10.

A serious earthquake was experienced at Serajero, Bosnia. A number of buildings were damaged. The melting of the glacier near Mcrau, in Tyrol, flooded the valley and destroyed the crops, doing much damage.

Rome, June IS

The Commissioner of Cardinals will henceforth administer the Papal property owing to irregularities in the management during the past. Lisbon, June 18.

The Governor of Mozambique has resigned. He will be succeeded by Senior Andreda.

Ottawa, June 19.

Premier Abbott has announced that the policy ot the new Govern ment will strictly follow the lines laid down by Sir J. Macdonald. Valparaiso, June 18.

The Government of Chili has awarded the commanders of the cruisers which sank the Blanco Encalada, a douceur of £30,000. The new Chilian Congress has empowered President Balmaceda to expend the revenue according to his own judgment without submitting estimates, to procure money without the consent of Congress, to dismiss or appoint employes of or to any rank, to suspend tree discussion and the liberty of the press, and to organise military tribunals.