NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3915, 17 September 1891, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

(United Press Association),

ENGLISH.

London, September 15,

Mr Walter Kennaway, Secretary to Sir Dillon Bell, will act as AgentGeneral fcr New Zealand after the latter's departure and until his sucessor arrives.

The Maybiick Committee have instructed their solicitors to test the validity of Mrs Maybrick's imprisonment. Sir Charles Russell and Sir Horace Davey haze been retained on her behalf.

Adelina Patti has Bigned an American engagement for £IOOO a night. Cardinal Manning says the welfare of the world's labour is next in im portance to its progress in religion. Sir C. Dilke, in the coursa of an article, says the Frenc'i soldier is the finest war material in Europe. An Indian Colonel named Desmond has accepted the challenge of the thought reader, Stuart Cumberland, for £ 1000, to demonstrate the existence of occult powers.

FOREIGN-'

Si Petersburg, Sept. 15

Thehorrots of the Russian famine are increasing daily. The rural clergy are starving, and the sufferings of the children are heartrending. Valparaiso, September 15.

It is reported that Balmaceda has been hid in Valparaiso, and has just escaped to the American flagship disguised as a drunken sailor. He is expected to land at Callao.

ft is stated Balmaceda has surrendered to the British flagship, and pleaded on his knees for mercy and to be taken abroad.

Madrid, September 15.

A national fund has been opened for the sufferers by the floods in Spain. Great loss of life and property is reported from the provinces of Valencia and Andalusia. Fifteen hundred perished at Consuegra alone. Hundreds of miles of country are submerged.

London, September 15. The tone in the City over the New South Wales loan is not improving. The World, referring to the New South Wales loan, says it is a good investment, and no anxiety need be felt for the future of the colonies, provided only borrowing is kept within moderate limits.

The Einancial News points out that the railways of New South Wales are admirably managed and distinctly reproductive. They form tangible security for more than half the debt of the colonv.