NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3871, 28 July 1891, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

ENGLISH, .London, July 25. The Imperial Government has agreed to allow Chinese Consuls to be appointed at English ports. In the House of Lord's to-day Lord Brassey questioned the Secretary of State for the Colonies on the ad visabilitiy of setting up an Imperial Commission to report on the defence of the colonies. Lord KniOafiwt, in reply, said that the report of the Cotunission would be of little value unless supported by the evidence of authorised colonial statesmen.

The Times, in referring to the result of the Wisbeach election, considers that it indicates a dangerous restlessness of rural voters. The Committee of the House of Commons, appointed to consider the sanitary conditions of the Houses of Parliament, report that the internal drainage scheme is perfect. The syndicate which recently purchased the business of Messrs Buckley and Nunn, general drapers, of Bourkestreet, Melbourne, will probably convert it into a limited liability company.

At the National Rifle Association meeting at Bisley Common, the Victorians won the second prize of £3O in a contest for which Lord Lindsay subscribed the money. Ten teams competed for the prizes offered by Lord Lindsay at ;he Rifle Association meeting at Bisley. The first prize fell to the Ayreshire Yeomanry, who scored 191 points. The Victorian Mounted Rifle team, which came second with 105 points, rode the course in 26 seconds faster than any other team in the competition. The riding and jumping of the Victorians were greatly applauded.

FOREICttT. Calcutta, July 25. The absence of rain increases the serious condition of the wheat crops, and the likelihood of a famine resulU ing. Calcutta, July 25. Cholera is still raging at Mecca, and 400 deaths are recorded daily. Extensive precautions are being taken to prevent its spread into Egypt. Paris, July 25. The Gaulois states that Belgium has joined the Triple Alliance. Three thousand pilgrims, en route from America, who were being conveyed across the continent in a hundred special trains, met with a serious disaster at Fournies.

The census shows the population of France to be 38,095,000, which is 123,000 less than at the enumeration in 1886. Madrid, July 25, The Republican journals protest against a Spanish military intervention in the event of peace being disturbed by Portugal. St Petebsbubg, July 25.

The Grasbdanin, the organ of the Russian nobility, taunts the French with succumbing in tin franco Prussian war in 1870 without a battle, and says that, owing to the French hatred of war, a Russian alliance with such people is impossible,