NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3861, 18 July 1891, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

Strauss. London, July 15. The Right Hon W. H. Smith is ill. Mr Samuel Cunliff Lister, connected with the Manninghani Silk Works at Bradford, has been raised to the peerage as Baron Masham. Dr Maclagan, formerly Bishop of Lichfield, who succeeds the late Archbishop Magee, will be enthroned Archbishop of York on 15th August. The Emperor of Germany requested the Duke of Cambridge to convey to the army his appreciation of the soldier-like bearing of the troops. He was much struck by the efficiency of the volunteer and militia. July 16. Mr Justice North is suffering from acate erysipelas. Mr H. Arnold White, member of the association for preventing the immigration of destitute aliens, and who has been enquiring into the treatment to which the Russian Jews were subjected says, that the charges of cruelty are largely exaggerated. The Rev. O. Spurgeon passed a restless night. The heart is failing, and the doctors report that his end is near.

At a convention of Farnellites a! Tralee, a gentleman named M'Carthy, who was in the chair, said they preferred Balfour's to the priests' coercion.

Bishop O'Dwyer, of Limerick, in ad dressing his congregation denounced Mr Farnell.

There are rumors of an impending crisis in banking circles in the city. It is stated that no arrangement has been found possible with regard to Murietta and Co.'s liabilities, which give rise to an uneasy feeling. Russia has withdrawn eight hundred thousand in gold. The colonial delegates to the Congregational Church Conference have considered a proposal that the Colonial Missionary Society shall in future devote its income to temporary grants for new works in populous colonial centres. The Rev. Mr Bevan I declared that New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia needed I help, which the other colonies should I render.

At the Congregational Conference, the Bev. Mr Jeffries said Australia was loyal to the Mother country, because of the freedom of her institutions. They were beginning to see the danger of the Establishment, and to work fox the Free Church.