NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3990, 16 December 1891, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

London, December li.

The Whitehall Review announces that Sir Win. Robinson has been offered the Agenc-Generalship of Western Australia.

A warrant has been issued by Mr Hurlbert against Miss Evelyn, the plaintiff in the recent action for breach of promise on the ground of perjury.

Fuiiher storms are raging all over England, and floods are universal. In many places buildings have been unroofed.

Mr Gladstone has written a letter in which he declines to adopt a legal eight hours, and expresses doubts whether the principle will be patiently borne.

The employes of 18 more firms have joined Waterloo & Sons' bookbinders on strike.

The Euterkin, bound to Brisbane, with a cargo of iron, was wrecked off i Ramsgate on Saturday eight. An apprentice who was lashed to the rigging, was the only one rescued, all the rest on board, 80 in number, being drowned. The British West Indies, excepting Jamaica, are concluding a reciprocity treaty with the United States. Miss Florence Bethel gnined the Sainton-Dolby prize at the Royal Academy of Music. The Duke of Devonshire is sinking. Election riots have taken place at Wexford, during which Mr M. Davitt was severely wounded in the head. He declares his intention of contesting the seat iu opposition to Mr John Redmond. . FOREIGN. New York, December 14. A riot has taken place in Denver, the chief commercial emporium of Colorado, owing to foreign miners being employed. In the entente seven persons were killed. Paris, December 14, The Paris pnnteis are sending aid to the Berlin printers. Sydney, December 15.

Several members of the later Labor Party have called a meeting to cojsider the advisableness of forming a party to promote democratic and labour legislation. The Early Closing Bill has passed through Committee in the Legislative Assembly. It provides that shopkeepers shall close it six o'clock on five days a of the week, and ten o'clock on Saturday ; compels them to provide their employes with sitting accommodation, and to allow them an hour for each meal, and prohibits the employment of lads under fourteen years of age, and of girls under fifteen, if they have noc passed the Fifth Standard. St. Petersburg, December 14. Influenza is raging in this city, bringing typhoid feyer and madness in its wake. (jaibo, December 14. An Australian monk and two nuns, whohave been prisoners by the Mahdi since the defeat of Hicks Pasha in 1883, have escaped from Khartoum, and have arrived at Norosko on the Nile. Calcutta, December 14. Desultory fighting is reported at Gilgit. It is feared snow will block the passes and isolate the expeditions, whose object is to forestall the Russians in the Amir. Rio de Janeiro, December 14. Comulete order has been restored here, and commercial confidence in the Government is also restored. Hong Kong, December 14. Tbe alleged object of the Chinese revolt is to restore the Ming dynasty. The decisive defeat of the rebels haa been confirmed. Ottawa, December 14. The Canadian Government urges England to mediate ii tbe dispute between Canada and. Newfoundland.