NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3943, 20 October 1891, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

By Telegraph.—Press Association,

ENGLISHLondon, October 17. The Pi ivy Council has laid fully before it the Imperial Act under which the conviction o? the Rev. Dr. Al'Leod in Sydney, on which ha was sentenced to three years' imprisonment for bigamy, was quashed, and the Council expresses the opinion that no jurisdiction lies where bigamy was committed in a foreign country. It is rumoured in London that Sii Henry Parkes, Premier of New South Wales, will succeed Sir Saul Samuel as Agent-General for that colony. The Ker. C. H. Spurgeon continues to improve in health, and will shortly leave on a visit to Mentone, in France, which is frequently visited by invalids owing to the mildness of its climate. October 18. The Economist advises the Premier of New Zealand to exchange New Plymouth bonds for New Zealand 4 per cents., which are cheap. The Taranaki Iron and Petroleum Company, with a capital of £125,000, has been registered. The Dowager Marchioness of Ailesbury, relict of the third earl of Ailes* bury, is dead; rstnt 77. A meeting of ratepayers has by a large majority decided to oppose General Booth's proposal to build a Salvation Home on the Thames Embank met t.

A syndicate of London financiers is shipping a large quantity of gold to the Argentine Republic, where stocks are recovering, consequent on the new Bank Bill having passed both Senate and Chamber.

The Imperial Government are awaiting a report from Captain Younghusband before coming to any decision as to the action they will take with regard to the delimitation of the Pamir Plateau.

Mr T. Harrington, Secretary of the Irish National League, challenges Mr W. O'Brien to produce the documents confirming the statements contained in a letter to the Freeman's Journal as to what took place at the Boulogne Conference respecting the leadership of the Irish Party. Despite the rivalry of German shipping companies the quantity of cargo conveyed to Zanzibar by British vessels has doubled during the last six months.

The Times states that the English Government has decided to assist in the construction of the railway from Mombassa to Uganda. H.M.S. Cordelia, which ia at present on the Australian station, will shortly be re-called. Her place will not be taken by any other vessel. Mr David Christie Murray, who has been declared bankrupt, asserts that he has no assets.

It was the English Bank of River Plate which suspended payment a few months ago; not the London River Plate Bank, as mentioned in Saturday's cables.

The Standard, in referring to the political crisis in New South Wales, declares that any Government trying to satisfy the new claims of the Labour Party will drift into even a more precarious condition than that led by Sir Henry Parkes. The English press generally refer in terms ot regret to Sir Henry's rumoied retirement from political life.

The St. James' Gazette alleges that financial anarchy and confusion will reign supreme in New South Wales, and that the local newspapers suppress information ae to the dismissal of Sir Henry Parkes, which it believes removes the only guarantee of the safety of British investors. It adds that the recent loan was obtained under the excuse of conversion, and was absorbed by accommodation bills with local banks.

Constantinople, October 18. The Sultan is hurrying on further fortification of the Dardanelles. Rome, October 18. It is rumoured that King Humbert will pay a visit to the Czar in the summer, and that the Italian fleet will accompany His Majesty. St. Petersburg, October 18. The expulsion of jews from the southern districts of Russia lias been stopped. the Czar's early visit to the Emperor of Germany id officially announced.

Hongkong, October 18. The Chinese Government fear that Russia is trying to advance on the frontier at Xasbgar, and some uneasw ness is occasioned. New York, October 16.

The Metbodist Conference closed its sittings yesterday, consequent on continued disorder arising out of offensive remarks of Mr H. J. Atkinson, M.P. foi Boston, England. Mr Atkinson is the member who, shortly before prorogation of tha British Parliament, was suspended for a week for disrespect to the Speaker. October 18.

The reported wreck of a steamer off Newfoundland, with large loss of life, turns out to be a hoax. Irvine Evans, American millionare and speculator, has committed suicide. J Boenos Avreß, October 18.

A split has taken place in the Cabinet of the Republic, and General Roca, Minister ot the interior, has resigned. Ottawa, October 17.

The Hon P. Gnrneau, Commissioner of Public Worka for Quebec, has assumed the responsibility of the statements in connection with the B*ie-Chaleur Railway, and denies f .hat M. Mercier, Premier of Quebec, was guilty of corrupt practice?. '

St Petersburg, October 16. Donations are flowing in for the relief ot the victims of the famine.

The peasantry are petitioning the ! Czar for help. October 18. The Ministerial Committee estimate that 123,OCO;°00 * oable3 wiH be required to mee* the distress caH!-.. by the failure pf thp baryegt. Madhib, October }B. Senor Canovaa del Castillo is improving in health.

Pa#s,. October 13. Madame Melba/ scored a great triumph on her re-appearance as Ophelia in Hamlet.

The Chamber of the Corn Trade urge the imposition of a duty on foreign flour. The Eussian loan is at £ discount. Russia sabsoribed only 2 per cent, of the amount herself. Berlin, October 18.

It is rumoured tbst the Czarewitch and the Prince of Naples, heir to the throne of Ijialy, will shortly be betrothed to the twin daughters of the tiutchess of Wjirtemburg. - Valparaiso, Octoher \s. Four sailors belonging to the United States warship Baltimore were klled in a street row in Valparaiso.

Western Australia. A correspondent of the Dunedin Globe writes as follows from Perth: While writing this letter to you, I beg to inform you that Perth is not what tha papers state it to be. I trrived here on Sunday, August 16, after being about four weeks on the passage from New Zealand. S»w Hobart Melbourne, Adelaide, Albany, Freoniantle. Albany is a little place ■bout the size of Caversharo, and very little work is done there. In Hobart I met soveral Dunedin people, and they only wish they had the means to get back again to Dunedin. Melbourne too, is overdone. I stopped thero a week, and hud a &ood look round. House rent is very dear, and you cannot get a four roomed cottnge for less than 15s pet* week, and that is thought cheap. And now about Perth, Western Australia. I arrived on the 16th of August at Freemantle. Freemantle is a dead, miserable little town, about the size of South of Dunedin—nothing else but sand and sandstone, with a few shops and an hotel, two storeys high. Board and lodging, 20s to. 25s per week; hotel 85s to 40s ; bread, 7d a loaf; butter, Is 8d; potatoes, 71b at Is (and they come from Melbourne); meat, 6d to 7d for bad joints ; prime cuts, 8d to 9d. in fact, provisions of all sorts are about 50 to 100 per cent dearer here than in Dunedin. There is not one manufactory here that employs six hands ; everything is imported. There is a land boom on just now, and I am afraid it will burst, for I cannot see what will support the people who are coming here. Wages are very low. A tradesman's pay is Irom 6s 6d to 10s, with nine and a half hours a day. Some are working for 4s GJ per day. Houses you canno', get, and the people are too poor to build. There is not a house or office or store more than two storeys high, and tbey are such miserable places that the Dunedin boys laugh at them. There is no clothing factory over here to give work to paople. Doors and sashes are very dear. A great many ot the streets are sand. The place is not fit for any Dunedin man to live in at present. Everybody here seems as if they were satisfied with their damper and gum trees, and the people coming from the eastern colony are only intruding on their sleepy go-as-you-please. There are a good many going to the gold field, which, I am sorry to say, is not what it' is stated to be. In the first place you go by boat to Geraldton; then you have 290 aiiles to tramp, for there is no coach or rail. The cost of cartage is .£SO a ton. The boys wait till there is a team going and they charge L2 10s to take your swat? up, which takes about 20 days. You must take your owu tucker with you, for you, cannot purchase any on .the road, so you can guess what the price of tucker would be on the field. However, I am going to give it it trial as soon as I bear from my mate, for there is nothing doing in Perth, and will not be for some time. Mr Editor, I strongly adviso the working class not to leave Dunedin to come here, if tbey do they will rue it. Vegetables you can not get unless you pay four times the amount you do in Dunedin for potatoes, which I have stated is 71b for Is, If a steamer were coming direot from New Zealand the following goods would find a good market: K doors, tongue and groove floring, potatoes, butter, pressed straw—for there is none here ;it is all used for hay—chaff, oatmeal, oats, cheese. All these come from Melbourne, for you cannot grow anything in the sand here—only in the swamps. I will write again at the end of this month, and will take notes every day of the doings of the place.