NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3989, 15 December 1891, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

Br Telegraph.—Press Association. ENGLISH. London, December 11. The Court has ordered the release of the girl sentenced to fourteen days imprisonment by the Cambridge University authorities for being found in company with an undergraduate. The release was granted on a technical point. A lifeboat crew at Liverpool put to sea when in a state of drunkenness, and being unable to find the wreck, allowed the boat to drift helplessly about.

In addressing the Liberal Rural Conference to-day, Mr Gladstone earnestly advocated the establishment of Parish Councils, and favoured the compulsory purchase of land for allotments.

December 12.

Influenza is rampant in the majority of the towns in the west of England.

Her Majesty the Queen will leave England in the middle of March and spend a month at the Isles of Hyeres, a cluster of isles in the Mediterranean, near the south coast of France, remarkable for the salubrity of their climate.

Mr Gladstone leaves on Tuesday for Biarritz.

Justice Sir J. W. Chitty has authorised tho reduction of the capital of the National Bank of New Zealand.

The anti-M'Carthyiteß intend to sue Mr Justin M'Carthy and Mrs Parnell, as trustees, in order to obtain a declaration that the funds deposited in the Parisian Bank are tli9 property of the National League, and to iestrain any personal application for their release. December 12.

The Irish Bishops are divided in their attitude towards the Nationalists, and there is an indication that the majority will withdraw from taking an active part in politics. This decision is partly owing to the Pope's direction that the Bishops should only interfere as moralists and peacemakers.

Mr William Kane, of London, will contest the Wexford election with Mr John Redmond.

Tbe leading English newspapers declare that Mr Gladstone's was only a quasi approval ot the reforms proposed at the Rural Conference, and amounted really to a non-committal. At a banquet in the city in connection with the Sural Conference, the reception of Mr Gladstone was one of remarkable cordiality. Addressing the assemblage, he declared rural emigration was a national calamity, and he referred to the Tory proposals to purchase holdings as premature. Lord Knutsford, Secretary of State for the Colonies, declines to confirm the Natal Self Government Bill.

Colonial stocks are improving, owing to a general impression in financial circles that the coloniei have recognised that it is desirable to cease borrowing in order to recover their credit. December 18. The financial journals are generally of opinion that the new tariff in Europe will not have an injurious effect on England. The Appeal Court has ordered the sale of the Sayernake estate. Lord SufSeld is seriously ill. FOREICHT. Berlin, December 12. The calculations of Professor Anover, of Berlin, from the results of his observations of the transit of Venus in 1882, give the sun's distance from the earth as 92,043,074 miles, Rome, December 13.

By the explosion of a boiler on a steamer in the Harbour of Genoa 20 of the crew were killed. Ottawa, December 11 f

Mr J. J. Abbott, Premier of the Dominion, hopes to speedily bring about a reconciliation with Newfoundhod. Bio ne Janeiro, December 11.

The banks in the city are guarded by troops. A panic is feared, and it is expected that martial law will be proclaimed. December 12.

Governor Portella has been asker} to resign, but has refused. He wil) probably be replaced by a military Governor of Bio.

Valparaiso, December ] 2

The references made to Chjli in President Harrison's message to the United States Congress have excited much anger here, and it is believed that he has been misled.

Calcutta, December 11

The Pamir tribesmen are menacing Gilgit, a town in the north eastern boundary ot Afghanistan.

The Ghoorkas have advanced against Fort Nilt near Chalt. Captain Aylmer destroyed the gates, of the fort with gun cotton and afterwards stormed the pUce, capturing nine prisoners and one gun, In the engagement seven Sepoys were killed and twenty-six wounded. Captain Aylmer, Colonel Duraud, and Lieutenants Badcock and Gorton were severely wounded. Captain Bradshaw has assumed command of tbe expedition.

Sydney, December 14,

The Typographical Association, after passing a resolution approving of theaction'of German printers in going but on strike, referred their appeal for monetary assistance to the Aijstrivlasjan ' Typ/OCTapbjpal Unipn, bejpg qfopmipn mt> the question was a national one. Pasib, December 18.

In the Chamber of Deputies, a motion providing' for the separation of Church and State was rejected by a large majority. M. de Freyciuet, in the course of bis remarks, said the Government fully niaiutained the supremacy of the State. It is reported that the Freemasons are agitating for separation.