NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3912, 14 September 1891, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

(United Press Association).

ENGLISH.

London, September 10,

Alexander and Co., corn merchants, have failed. The gross liabilities are put down at £1,750,000, but the deficiency is eßtimated at only £44,000. England has arranged with the Servian Government for the passage of the Indian mails througn that country. The Bank of Australasia pays n dividend of 14 per cent., and carries forward £14,500.

Obituary—Mr Partridge, the Marylebone Magistrate. The Wesleyan and Method is"; Unions have fixed a week of prayer, to commence on 15th November.

Sir Arthur Stepney-Cowell, M.P. for Carmatben, has resigned. Mr Howard Vincent, who has recently been in Canada advocating the policy of the British Empire Trade League, will visit the Cape in the same interests.

September 11.

The oxpress train from Ballocb ran into a party of navvies near B irkhill, Scotland, killing five. A Conference of the Welsh National Council has opened a Disestablishment campaign at Pontypridd. The next conference of Orientalists will be held either in Grenada or Seylile, in Spain and, S : gnor Canovas will preside.

A Jew:sh Colonisation Association has been formed to give effect to Baron Hirsch's scheme. The capital is £2,000,000, The Baron takes all shares ' except ten. The shares are £looeach. Messrs Rothschilds, Goldsmith, Cassel, Reinath, Mocatta, Goldschmidt, Benjamin, and Cohen hold the balance of the shares. FOREIGN. Paris, September 10. A staircase collapsed in a circus at Marseilles while the audience were going out, and 25 people were injured. M. Gr6vy died of congestion o" the lungs after four days illness. September 11. A Committee of the Chamber of Deputies consider that, with a view to Protect bondholders interested in the anama Canal, if tin Government internationalised the Canal, and the French subscribe the bulk of the money, the work would be completed. Thuksday Island, September 11. The British Company's steamer Yiraiva is ashore on Dugdale Rock, and it is not likely she can be floated off without immense difficulty.

New Yobk, September 11.

The Republican Convention urges (he maintenance of gold and silver a f parity.

Manilla, September 11.

The Governor of the Fhillipine Islands claims to have defeated the natives ia a fierce battle at Lamas, and to have captured IS guns. The loss on the Spanish side was small. St. Petersburg, Sept. 10.

The peasaats in the Oreal district are committing crimes in order to escape starvation. The gaols are over full, snd hundreds are killed in the fights for grain. Paris, September 10.

M. Jules Simon, in a letter to the press, says Socialism is tbe greatest danger the Republic has to fear. The reception given to the French at Ci'oastadt and Portsmouth has weakened Germany's powers ot ill. Constantinople, Sept. 11.

The Porte denies having apologised to Russia in May last for the stoppage of Russian merchant vessels passing through the Dardanelles, and admits that in the action taken at that time to prevent vessels passing, the commandant of the forts was not to blame.

Djelaledden Pasha has been ap pointad Governor at Crete. Vienna, September 11.

It is understood that in the recent interviews between General Von Caprivi, German Chancellor, and Count Kalnoky, Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs, an agreement was arrived at that there was no present ground for diplomatic action with regard to Turkey allowing Russia free passage of the Dardanelles. It is rumored that another of the Great Powers has refused England's I request to interfere. New York, September 10. The Herald's correspondent telegraphs that the Earthquake in San Salvador took place at midnight. The telegraph lines were broken for a radius of sixty miles and hundreds of lives were lost.

A perfect reign of terror is established and the people are leaving the country in all directions. Valparaiso, September 10.

MrEgan, the American Minister, is urging the Junta not to confiscate the property of Baimaceda's supporters. The American warship in harbour saluted the Chilian flag. September 11.

It is believed that the Junta will accept the responsibility of Baimaceda's note issue redeeming them in five years. It is reported that the British Minister offered services of H.M.S. fispiegle to carry the sil rer to Monte Video, and afterwards to Southampton, as an offset to the influence of Mr Egan, American Minister, with General Balmaceda.