NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3940, 16 October 1891, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

By Telegraph.—Press Association.

ENGLISH. London, October 13. The steamer Unibria experienced similar weather crossing the Atlantic to tire Steamer Augusta Victoria, and two of the female passengers died of iright: It is.reported that the proceedings instituted by Colonel H. M. Hozier of 3rd Kent Artillery Volunteers, to obtain a divorce from his wife, Lady Henrietta Blanche, daughter of the seventh Earl of Airlie, has been abandoned.

The Melbourne Harbor Board loan of half a million at i per cent., minimum 95, has been successfully floated. The amount tendered was £511,000, the average price being 8d above the minimum.

Mr Chamberlain speaking in Wales appealed to the country to uphold the Protestant Church in Ireland. Mr Chamberlain asserts that Mr Gladstone's programme, as set out in his Newcastle speech, is absurd and dishonest. Scuttling from Egypt is cowardly. The Premier, Mr Abbott, has uppointed a strong independent commission to investigate the condition of the Civil Service in Canada.

It ia probable tiiat a compromise will be arrived at on the sealing question.

It is rumoured that Mis Parnell proposes to publish letters between Mr Gladstone and Mr Parnell on Irish affairs, The French bankers are awaiting legal authority to disburse the funds deposited with them in Mr Parnell's name.

The Daily Telegraph's Paris correspondent says it is possible the funds may become the property of France.

Mr Justin McCarthy does not intend to issue any manifesto, giving it as his belief there is no real division between the two sections of the Irish Party. A fearful gale is raging in the English and Irish channels, and many small crafts have been wreoked, some with loss of life. The gale blew down Buffalo Bill's pavilion at Brighton, which was capable of holding 15,000 people. The Jews in Europe are opposing the Russian loan.

One of the disadvantages of the Salonica mail route is that it is infested with brigands.

Fornax,

St. Petersberg, October 14,

A Russian Company is being formed to trade with Afghanistan, Bokhara, and Khiva.

The Novosti says that thirteen million peasants are suffering from the famine. Bbussels, October 18. A passenger boat on the river Scheldt capsized and ten persons were drowned. Paris, October 18. The daughters of General Boplanger intend contesting the will under which ijlss Griffiths becomes heiress to his fortune. New York, October 14. News has been received frora Cen» tral America of an attempt to murder the President of Nicaragua. The heaviest earthquake known for years has taken place at Napa, in California, A Masonic temple apd other out buildings were destroyed. Berlin, October 14* The gold medal subscribed for by the medical faculty all over the world was presented to Dr. Virchow, the celebrated aerman phrenologist, on the occasion of his 70tb birthday yesterday. A remarkable case has been before the Berlin Courts, which discloses the existence of a system of sale and purchase of Court Titles and Orders, ofthqse implicated were sen tenced to nine and foiir months' imprison ment. Constantinople, October 14. The Porte intends to totally disarm the Albanians in order to put a stop to the blood feuds in that country. Thirty battalions of trqops will J}e peeked to qut ttye qpet^tion. Monte VipEo, October 14. Six persons were killed and seyen wounded in a popular outbreak this week, fifty arrests were made. Madrid, October 14. Senor Canovas del Castillo, Spanish Statesman, is ill with intermittent! fever. '

Ottawa, October 14

Professor Goldwin Smith has declared in favour of the annexation of Canada by the United States. M. Mercier, Premier of Quebec, who was adjudged guilty of corrupt practices in connection with the BaieGhaleur Railway, fears that an attempt will be made to assassinate him, and has applied for police protection. Hongkong, October 14. It is reported it Shanghai that the Powers have broken off negoti - ations with the Chinese Government and announced their intention to take forcible action in the event of <iny further rioting. An outbreak has occurred in the province of Hunan, during which the Prefect was killed.

General Li Hung Chang does not regard the situation as serious, but says the Imperial Government is grieved at the attitude assumed by Germany.