NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3937, 13 October 1891, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

ENGLISHBy Telegraph.—Press Association. London, October 10. Madame Melba has made her son a ward in Chancery, and has settled upon bim a large sum of money. The Rev. Benjamin Jowett, late Vice-Chancellor of the University of Edinburgh, is seriously ill, and his condition causes his friends a great deal of anxiety. Professor Jowett is 74 years of age. Professor Jebb has been elected, unopposed, to fill the vacancy in the representation of Cambridge University in the House of Commons caused by the death of Mr Cecil Raiken. The Earl of Derby unveiled a statue of John Bright at Manchester yesterday.

Westminster Abbey was crowded with notables at [he funeral of the late Right Hon. W. H. Smith. The Agents-General for the colonies were all present. It is expected Mrs Smith will be made a peeress in her own right. Her Majesty the Queen sent a wreath to be placed on the late W. H. Smith's c»ffin. The wreath bore the following inscription :—" A mark of sincere gratitudefor devoted service to Sovereign and Country." Mr Murray, a Tory, has been elected for Buteshire, in the place of the Right Hon. J. P. B. Robertson, Q.C., reI cently appointed Lord Justice-General | of Scotland.

Since the employers have received negotiations with the strikers the latter have determined to extend the present block in London to the provinces,

The men engaged on Chamberlain's aDd Hay's wharves have received notice of an intended reduction in wages to 5d an hour, Mr Tom Mann states that during the past two years 15,000 members of the Docker's Union have resigned, and that the present strength is 40,000.

Tom Mann is a candidate for the Secretaryship of the Engineers' Union. Following upon the announcement of a fresh Melbourne Harbour Loan, a general fall has occurred in colonial stocks of from Jto 1 per cent. Oaniaru Harbour Board bonds fell 2 per cent. Westgarth's Circular says colonial securities will not maintain their prices or recover their credit unless the colonies intimate they will borrow no more for some years. Sir J. P. Garrick, Agent General for Queensland, has assured Mr W. Lidderdale, Governor of the Bank of England, that he neither imputed any want of honesty or good faith on the part of the Bank, and that he would decline to await au answer by mail from his Government on this head, but would insist on immediate denial being cabled. Shareholders of the Bank of South Australia are much irritated at the alleged discrepancy appearing in a circular, and threaten to proceed aga'nst the directors of the institution. j FOREIGN. Paris, October 11. The whole of the glass-workers in France hava struok. Buenos Ayres, October 10. The Committee of the Senate re* commend the rejection ot the Financial Bills sent up to the Chamber of Deputies.

St. Petersburg, October 10. The Russian expedition to Pamir has safely traversed Kashlear and Yarkand. It is estimated that 32,000,000 Russian peasants are in a destitute condition and must remain so for the next 10 months. German settlers in "Volga district are famine stricken, and over a thousand are said to be prostrated by typhus fiver. Hono Kowo, October 11. The promoters of the recent riots at Tchang are proceeding to Chunking. Rio de Janiero, October 10. Marshal Fonseca, President of Brazil, is in a critical state of health. Buda PEBTH, October 11. The introduction of the zone system in the Hungarian railways has increased the passenger traffic by 21,000,000. The receipts have gone up £300,000, and the expenses are only £73,000;