NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3872, 29 July 1891, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

ENGLISH, London, July 26. " General" Booth has been given an immense "send off" by the Salvation Army. fl. M. Stanley has met with an accident, his thigh being fractured.

Annie Besant has renounced the Malthusian doctrines.

The Berlin correspondent of the Times telegraphs that King Charles of Koumauia will shortly meet the Prince of Wales for the purpose of arranging the betrothal of Prince Ferdinald (his nephew), heir presumptive to the Roumanian throne, with the daughter of the Duke of Edinburgh. The Naue Freie Presse, of Vienna, also states that King Charles will shortly visit England, but says it is to arrange the betrothal of Prince Ferdinand to a daughter of the Prince of Wales. It is announced that the intended marriage of the Marquis of Hartington with the Dowager Duchess of Manchester will not take place. The Earl of Wicklow is dead, aetat 49.

The Finanoial Time 3 alleges that the defence made by the Otago Daily Times of the Otago Harbour Board's position is a definite indication of the possibility of default. July 27. Obituary—Sir B. W. Foster, M.P. for Ilkeston. The prospects of the hop crops are excellent. July 27. The Queen, in very gracious terms, has invited the French fleet to visit Portsmouth on the 20th August, when the Czar and Czarina are expected. She proposes to pay a visit of inspection herself if the invitation is accepted. The Spectator advocates that the colonies should become entirely independent and autonomous ; that they should establish a common citizenship of English speaking nations; also perpetual treaties, and an offensive and defensive alliance. The Spectator predicts that if this is done, in half a century half the civilised world would be lapped in the security of a mighty pax anglicana. July 26. The Unionists are dismayed at the result of the Wisbeach election. The Daily news, referring to the result, considers that the country is reversing its hasty judgment of 1886. FOREIGN. P/.313, July 27. An excursion and a gpods train came into collision at St. Maude, near Paris. The carriages caught fire, and a frightful scene ensued. Sixty people were killed oatright in the collision, and several others who were unable to extricate themselves from the ruins we caught by the ames and burnt to death.

The Budget Committee has adopted M. Brisson's scheme for doubling the strength of the French Navy. The former decision against any large increase is therefore likely to be rescinded. Tnfernal machines concealed in books have been sent to M. Constans, Minister of the Interior, and M. Etieune Trielle, head of the Colonial Medical Department. The senders are believed to be colonial naval doctors who have been compulsorily retired. Vienna, July 27. Eleven thousand acres of land havb been purchased near Essex, in Hungary, for the purpose of establishing a colony of Russian refugee Jews. St. Petersburg, July 26. The Czar and Czarina have paid a visit to the French squadron atjCrons tacit. It is expected that the Czar and Czarina will arrive at Portsmouth about the 20th of August. When the Czar visited the French fleet at Cronstadt the" Marseillaise" was frequently sung by the Russians, the air being set to words of welcome. Neither the Czar nor his officers toasted the Republic, but only France and the President.

Preparation had been made to signalise the visit by a great antiGerman demonstration, but the in* tention of the promoters was thwarted by the Czar giymg orders which prevented the demonstration.

New York, July 26. The cotton and woollen mills of Messrs Campbell and Elliott, Philadelphia, have been destroyed by fire. The damage is estimated at 750,000 dollars.

Ottawa, July 25,

Mr Howard Vincent, member of the English House of Commons, has had an interview with fifty members of the Dominion Parliament respecting preferential duties on British goods imported into Canada. The result of the conference has not yet been made public.