NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3947, 24 October 1891, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

By Thlegraph.—Press Association.

ENGLISH. | j London, October 21. Sir John Fender says that thej reduced cable rates to the colonies have had the effect of largely iucreasiug the amount of work on the wires, and the Eastern Extension Cable Company are not likely to lose anything by the reduction, Tin general opinion among City] men is that air T. M'llwraith's action in making serious charges against the Bank of England hns seriously prejudiced all the Queensland stocks. Mr Dubedat, Chairman of the Dublin Stock Exchange, who failed in December last, has been sentenced to eight years' imprisonment. Captain Shaw receives a pension of £IOOO on his retirement from the Superintendency of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade. The freedom ot 'he city of Bristol hns been conferred on the Duke of Edinburgh. Sir Vernon Harcourt has lost the sight of one eye, and the other is likely to become affected, Dr Maorbouse, speaking at the Dioceian Conference, said he would rather children should be members of the most fanatical and superstitious body than secularists. The former Oamaru loan has fallen 6 per cent., and the Municipal loan 7 per cent. On the default of the Oamaru Harbour Board being announced, Wanganui Harbour Board stock fell 3i per cent.

Mr J. Chamberlain, M.P. for Birmingham, speaking at Sunderland, declared that if Mr Gladstone were victorious at the general election, England would become involved jn Foreign complications, and, Ireland wo"Jd relapse into a state of Anarchy Undsr Baron llusch'a scheme every Jewish family settled in the Argentine Republic will be allottad 150 acres of land and one year's provisions. The second year they are to support themselves, and in the , third year they will have to pay a small rent. The Freeman's Journal thinks it is hopeless to look for union between the two sections of the Irish party. Mr Parnell died intestate.

It is reported that payable alluvial gold has been discovered at Fort Salisbury, South Africa. Mr John Redmond, M.P., has been elected leader of the party formerly led by the lute Mr Parnell. Mr Parnell died intestate through neglect to renew bequests to Mrs O'Shea after their marriage. Valparaiso, October 22.

Tee Provisional Government is considering the adrisableness of extending a pignepy amnesty to all political prisoners.

FOBSHW. Vienna, October 22. Four thousand cases of influenza are reported from Lemburg, in Galacia. \ Constantinople, October 21. A band of 50 Albian brigands attacked a party of Montenegrin travellers, killing five of them. Hong»ong, Octeber 21. It is asserted in Shanghai that the Kolno Hui Society has announced its intention of exterminating Foreign Missions. This is the secret society to which the recent anti-foreign outrages in the Yang-tse-Kian<» Valley are attributed, and is one of the most powerful and troublesome organisations in China.

FewYor*, October 2.2. A train was derailed at Monmouth, in Illinois, ten persons being killed and many injured. Consequent on the increasing production of beet in California, the United States Treasury will be compelled to make a large increase to the ten million dollars voted as bounties. Buenos Atbes, October 20. The Senate and Chamber of Depues have passed a vote of confidence the present Administration, but d-spite this the political crisis still continues. St. Petersburg, October 21. The Russian Go.yernu)eus if stop'

ping the export of buckwheat and millet. Several firms in Moscow have suspended payment. The liabilities of one of them amount to £480,000. October 22. It is officially announced that 250,000,000 roubles is required to give relief to the famine-stricken districts. The distress has now extended to Siberia. Provisions in the two districts have been exhausted, and great difficulty is found in supplying half the food required there.

Anti-Jewish riots have broken out at Tcliernigoff, a town on the Desna, 80 miles N.N.E. of Kiev. During the fight 30 Jews wero killed and 500 injured. The cause is attributed to the belief held by the peasants that the Jews are responsible for the famine. Algiers, October 21. A rebellion having broken out in Sahara, it is feared that Central Sahara will be closed to French traders, and the Algerian authorities are urging the despatch of a punitive expedition to the scene of the trouble.