NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3842, 26 June 1891, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

ENGLISH, London, June 23. The United British Women's Emigration Society has expressed its willingness to pay half the cost of sending domestic servants to Tasmania and elsewhere, Sir E. N. C. Braddon, Agent.General for Tasmania, has agreed to deliver an address to the society on 13th July. The Society of Arts has awarded Sir E. N. C. Braddon, of Tasmania, its silver medal, for his paper on the industries of the colony he represents. June 24 The assets of the firm of Murietta and Co. are being re-valujd. - It is uncertain whether fresh assistance is possible, but the Times says that in any event nothing serious will result. Mr Raikes, replying to a deputation of owners and publishers of newspapers and periodicals, agreed to fix the maximum weight of newspapers

at lib, and otherwise facilitate their transmission.

Mr Frank Dicksee, artist, has been elected a member of the Royal Academy. Government will make, in addition to the yearly grant of £3OO to Mrs Quinton, a grant of 4100 per annum to Mr Quinton's mother. . A special grant of .£IOO is to be made to Mrs Grimwood for her gallant services after the Residenoy at Manipur was attacked.

FOREIGN. St. Petersburg, June 28. Russia is organising an Exhibition at Athens, with a view to developing her commercial relations with Greece, to the detriment of the British trade. New York, June 23. The delegates representing Mr Parnell's party are disgusted at the reception they have met with m the United States, and propose returning to England immediately.. During a conflict among Italians at St. Louis, some members of the Mafia (the Sicilian secret society) stabbed two Italians to death. Capetown, June 28, Four hundred and fifty man of the Yorkshire Regiment are encamped at Mofeking for the purpose of watching the movements of the Boers. Yokohama, June 28. The steamer Jap capsized off the coast of Japan, and 50 persons were drowned. She was engaged in the coastal trade.