NEWS BY CABLE.
ENGLISH London, December 26. Morris, the inventor of the wellknown tube used in rifles, which is known as the " Morris tube," has committed suicide. Influenza is spreading in Belfast with alarming mortality. The Financial News declares that it is obvious that the ppople of New Zealand cannot bi;ar tire strain of exeessive taxation much longer.
Truth states it is p- obabl6 Lord Woiseley will succeed Lord Stanley as Governor-General of Canada.
Trust companies hold one fourth of the London shares of the Standard Bank. The uiauager believes all will be readily paid. The Standard says that Robert Morier, British Ambassador to Russia, will succeed Lord Dufferin at Borne, and Sir F. C. Ford, Ambassador in Spain, will take Sir R. Morier's place at St. Petersburg. . Fierce rioting has taken place in Ennis, County Clare, which was provoked by the followers of the late C. S. Parnell.
Many persons were injured by sticks and stones, and Mr J. Dillon was struck across the face.
The priests were openly defied and hooted, but eventually the police were successful in dispersing the mob. The Koyal Families of England, Russia, and Greece jointly present the King and Queen of Denmark with a splendid group of sculpture for the public square in Copenhagen. The Engineers' Association is taking a ballot on the question of granting a donation of £ISOO towards the assistance of the printers on strike in Germany,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3992, 18 December 1891, Page 2
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237NEWS BY CABLE. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3992, 18 December 1891, Page 2
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