NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3985, 10 December 1891, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

By Telegraph.—Press Associa tio n. ssaussLondon, December 7. The Admiralty approve Admiral Lord Charles Scott's action in the Mildura enquiry. It is reported that Sir W. Sendall, Governor of Barbadoes, will succeed Sir W. Robinson as Governor of Western Australia. December 8. The Princess Victoria of Teck, on returning to London, received a warm public greeting. The Queen visited Marlborough House to congratulate the young people. The Rev Mr Fisher, Congregational minister at Sutton, has accepted change to the Congregational Church at Port Chalmers, New Zealand. Count Gleichen, Governor and Constable of Windsor Castle, who is suffering from typhoid fever and cancer, is still in a very serious condition.

The death i 3 announced of Mr W. Balfistier, who wag collaborating with Rudyard Kipling in the production of a novel entitled " The Naulakbae, or East and West." The Duke of Devonshire has recovered from h' B recent severe lllnbss. The Rev Mr M'Neil, of Regentsquare Church, will shortly resign, and join Moody and Sankey in Scotland. The Marquis of Salisbury denies the statement that there will be an early dissolution of ParlUruent. The London County Council elections are being fought on political lines. St. Petebsbubg, December 8. An Imperial lottery of six million roubles has been started, for she re.ief of the famine; Paris, Bth December. A fishing smack has been wrecked at Fecamp in the Engliph Channel, twenty-four of those on board being drowned j The trench Government will accord the late Dora Pedro a funeral oefitting the rank of a {Sovereign. The bodies of fifty-eight of the miners killed by an explosion of fire damp in the St. Etienne mine have been recovered. All of them were fearfullv charred. The stoppage of the ventilator was the cause of the accident, and the fault ia attributed tq the foreman «f tho muie.

Madrid, Bth December. The French Vice-Consul at San Sebastian, on the north coast, murdered the Consul General, and afterwards committed suicide. Washington, Bth December. United States Democrats have elected Mr Crisp Speaker of the House of Representatives.