NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3939, 15 October 1891, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

By Telegraph.—Press Association

ENGLISHLONDON, October 13. It is expected that the son of the iate Mr W. H. Smith will be returned unopposed for the Straud seat in the House of Commons. The Standard's correspondent says that the negro delegates attending the Methodist Congress are not allowed to take meals at the same restaurant as the other delegates. The paper, commenting on this exclusiveness, says it is an unhappy comment on the Methodist millennium. The block at the Carron Wharf has fizzled out.

More carmen are striking, and the excitement is increasing. The officials of the Docker's Union threaten to take drastic measures, but the Shipping Federation are confident the strike will not extend further.

The proposals of Mr T. Playford, Premier o( South Australia, for the limitations of holdings and the com pulsory sale of leasehold property, is canning considerable alarm, and it is rumoured that large withdrawals of capital from that colony are contemplated.

The Nationalists are alarmed at the report that Mr Parnell's heirs will obtain control of the funds in the hands of Paris bankers.

The Parnellites have had a meeting, at which they decided to adhere to their policy. Before listening to any offer for re-union, thty insist upon Mr Macarthy obtaining the plain acceptance by Mr Gladstone of the scheme of Home Rule demanded by the late Mr Parnell. They intend to call a convention of Irish delegates from every country. Mr John Redmond or Mr Pierce Mahoney will probably be chosen leader.

The magnitude of Mr Parnell's funeral has clearly impressed the Nationalist Press, whose tone is eulogistic and respectful. The Parnellites declare the priests had a large share in the murder of their late leader. The Parnellites have decided to hurrj on the establishment oftlieir proposed new paper. They have issued a manifesto, stating they will have no fellowship with the traitors who loaded Mr Parnell with calumny, and hounded him to death. The seceders Are stigmatised as satellites of Mr Gladstone. A relative of the late Mr Parnell will be a candidate for ths Cork seat. The Dublin National Club refuses to accept shim Home Utile. They assert they would rather light alongside the Orangemen. It is alleged the French law permits Mrs Parnell to withdraw part of the Paris fund, and devote it to the support of her late husband's Party. Mr Munro, Premier of Victoria, declines to renew Sir G. Berry's term as Agent-General. The Times correspondent says that Mr and Mis Stanley and Lady Baring, who were passengers by the Italian mail train which met with an accident, weVe severely shaken, but escaped without actual injury. Frightful weather has been ex perienced in the Atlantic Ocean. The steamer Augusta Victoria, from New York, had 30 of her passengers and crew injured. The Daily News favours Mr Balfour's claims to the leadership of the House of Commons iu the absence of Lord .Randolph Churchill. The Chronicle protests against a noble family ruling England.

It is believed that the London Post Office officials are not in favour of the Salonica mail route. It is rumoured that General Sir Evelyn Wood succeeds General Sir Frederick Koberts as commander-in-chief in India.

The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Daily Telegraph wires that a conspiracy against tbe life of the Czar has been discovered at Kiev, and that a printing press has been seized. A serious outbreak has taken place among the students, and although many have been arrested, the spirit of revolt is spreading. Cardinal Manning exhorts French Catholics to be loyal to the Republic. The Chinese Minister in England urges the appointment of Chinese Consuls in the British colonies.

The Daily Chronicle, in an article referring to the death of Mr Parnell, states that he found Ireland a nation of serfs and left it a free democracy. Madrid, October 18. Queen Christina has paid a visit to Mr Seymour Lucas, the English painter, and others injured in the recent railway accident at Burgos. • Paris, October 13. Many residents in Paris have petitioned the Government to remove the late Exhibition building and also the Eiffel Tower. Though the Sulonica mail route saves six hours, the French officials fear it will be uncertain in the winter. Brussels, October 13.

Information has reached here that the Belgian vessel Ellen, losing her bearings in the Mediterranean Sea, drifted helplessly about for a fortnight. The crew suffered terrible privations, twelve of their number dying from starvation. Only one was rescued. St. Petersburg, October 13.

One hundred inillien roubles will be required to feed the starving peasants during the winter, apart from the cost of seed grain. Incendiarism is frequent in the famine-stricken districts, and the corn magazines are pillaged by the famishing people. Berlin, October 12.

The numerical strength ot the German army is 11,000 below that of France, and the war vote of the latter is 30 million francs above the German.

The relations between the Emperor and Bismarck are improving. Paris, October 13. The Russian loan is quoted at a discount in Paris.

M. De G'ers, the Kussian Minister for Foreign Affairs, who is now on a visit to this city, in the course of an interview with the diplomatic sentative of another Power, declared that the movements of Russian troops on the Western border were merely for defensive purposes. Russia and France were both aware that the great majority of the Powers were averse to war, and no importance need be attached to these movements.

M. De Giers is now interviewing King Humbert and the Marquis Rudini, Premier of Italy.

He assured another interriewer that there were symptoms showing that the Czar was restraining the war party Russia would not lead France into any rash act. Washington, October 13,

A Melbourne rainmaker has contracted to water North East Kansas in the Spring for a dollar per acre.