NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3942, 19 October 1891, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

By Telegraph.—Press Association.

ENGLISH. London, October 16. If the Salonica route is adopted as an alternative route for the Indian and Australian mails, the English Postal Department will insist on a saving ol time and cost and transit, and expects the service to carry the mails at cost price. Mrs Bernard-Beere proposes to make a theatrical tour of Australia in the spring. Mr De Cobain, M.P., who is wanted on a criminal charge, is seriously ill. It is proposed to hold a national celebration in honour of the Prince of Wales' fiftieth birthday. The Admiralty are selling the cruiser Opal, which was for some years on the Australian station. It has bee* ascertained the manager of the London and River Plate Bank, whioh suspended payment a few! months ago, has embezzled £BOOO. Ben Tillett expresses approval of the employers' scheme with regard to labour, provided that the suggested pensions are made retrospective. The lightermen and watermen have decided to continue the block, pending the decision of the stevedores, whioh will be announced on Monday. Tom Mann says that the workmen are renouncing both the Tories and Liberals, and they demand an equitable division of work and profits. Mr Tim Healj, M.P., threatens to make startling disclosures in reference to the conference at Boulogne between Messrs Parnell and O'Brien. Mr O'Brien in a letter to the Freeman's Journal, says that at the Boulogne Conference the Parnellitea consented at first to Mr Dillon, and atterwards to himself, taking the leadership of the Party. He pub-, lishes a letter of thanks from Mr Parnell for the manner in whioh he had carried on the negotiations on the subject; The Standard asserts that Mr G-osohen waived his claims to the leadership of the House of Commons and that it has been arranged that Mr A. J. Balfour takes the position. Hon W. L. Jackson, Financial Seoretary to the Treasury, succeeds Mr Balfour.

Mr Goschen, speaking at Cambridge, said it was very natural that the Unionists should wish the leadership to fall on Mr Balfour, and he warned Mr Gladstone that unlesss the plain issue on the question of Home Rule was submitted a fresh appeal was inevitable. Five persons were suffooated in a fire at Millwall last night. St. Petersberg, October 16. The Czarina has contributed twenty million roubles to the fund being raised for the famine-stricken people of Russia. Donations are flowing in for the relief of the victims of the famine. The peasantry are petitioning the Czar for help. Cairo, October 16.

The French Consul at Alexandria is resisting the decree issued by the Khedive directing the inspection of stocks held by druggists.