NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Issue 3920, 23 September 1891, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

ENGLISH-

(United Press Association),

London, September 21

Sir James Fergusson, Under-Secre-tary for the Foreign Office, has been appointed Postmaster-General, yice Mr Ceoil Raikes, deceased. Intelligence has been received hero that General Balmaceda, distrusting the Junta's promise of a fair trial, shot himself at the Argentine Republic Legation in Santiago, where be has been in hiding sinoe his overthrow, and that troops are protecting the body.

The news of the ex-President's death was received wilh great enthusiasm at Valparai.-o, and was celebrated by illuminations. Balmaceda is r« ported to have left a document in which he declares that his Generals were false, and that he was surrounded by traitors. He asserts thut he aimed at Chili's

anc^^^^^^^^^^^^^fl cruelty excepl^^^^^^^^^^^^H was i^^^^^^^^^^^J Balmaceda >a^^^^^^^^^^H the United StateH^^^^^^^^H urged him to compr^^^^^^^H He adds^^^^^^^^J downfall he intended l^^^^^^^| cruiser Almirante Conde^^^^^^H she had sailed for returned to SantiagJl^^^^^^H The document also W Uriburu, the Ajg«ftine Bepublic Minister, and another devoted adher* ent, alone were aware of his being concealed until Friday last, when he was discovered by the Junta. Balmaceda shot himself through the temple on Saturday morning, The Junta sent a commission to view the body. The excitement in Santiago is said to be indiscribable, and a large frenzied crowd demand the body. FOREXttT. St. Petersburg, September 21. The starving peasantry in the southern and western provinces are burning houses for purposes of plunder The reported fighting between Russians and Afghans on the frontier is denied here. Rome, September 21. The Pope threatens to excommunicate duellists. The Pope, in the presence of twelve Cardinals, received a deputation representing 20,000 French workmen and pilgrims thanking his Holiness for his recent encycltai! letter to workmen. In replying, the Pope reiterated his warning against Socialists.and advised workmen to plan; reliance in Christianity and thrift. Constantinople, September 21. The "Yemen rebels have captured Sana. Calcutta, September 21. The Marquisof|Lmsdowne proposes to make a tour of the Cashmere State. Rome, September 21. La Tribuna states that the fleets of England, Italy, Germany, and the United States will make a demonstration in Chinese waters under the Duke of Genoa, and that the French and Russian fleets will abstain from taking part in it. Zanzibar, September 21. The German East African Company demand that Major Wissman should be appointed Dictator. New York, September 21. Professor George M. Dawson, Assistant Director, and Geologist, of the Canadian Geological and Natural History Survey, who was appointed one of the British Commissioners to enquire into the conditions of seal life in Behring Sea and other parts of the North Pacific, is of opinion that the seal poaching is harmless. Sir George Baden Powell, M.P., the other Com* missioner, accepts the American view that it is destructive, and likely to lead to the extinction of the nnimnls.

Paris, September 21

The dockers at Havre, who have struck against a reduction in wages, have had their demands conceded.