NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3995, 22 December 1891, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

ENGLISH London, December 19. Her Majesty the Queen has expressed sympathy with tte efforts being made to suppress rabbit couising. The Radicals complain that it is an attack on a poor man's sport. Mr D. Gray, of Peterhead, has written to Baron Oscar Dickson, the Gothenburg merchant, offering to cooperate in arranging an antarctic cx-« pedition. December 20. Dr W. P. Austin, Bishop of British Guiana, has been appointed Prelate of the Order of St Michael and St George in succession to the late Bishop Perry. An old man, William Young, 74 years of age, who visited Pontefract to secure a legacy of £IOO,OOO, left by an Au3traliau relative, met with an accident on a railway platform and was killed. Bankers are staggered at the combined colonies asking for £8,000,000 worth of Treasury Bills, which are regarded as virtually new loans. They express themselves as unable to under •'.and why 4£ per cent should r.«5 tempt local visitors to take up a portion of the amount, and it is feared that holdeis of colonial stock will sell in order' to purchase Treasury Bills, thereby largely depreciating Australian stuck for years. A suggestion has been made that bondholders should hold a meeting to denounce excessive borrowing bejug revjvecj, and offer the greatest objection to the continued expenditure of mouey on public works. A leading banking authority asserts that Treasury Bills ought not to exceed a currency of two yearß. The bankers eay they are aware that two other colonies propose to issue a million and a half worth of Brills, besides making other demands. Some experts advise that the bills should be made convertible into inscribed stock, but opinions diSer on the advisability of such a step.

■J?he Bcoupmjsf cpiifjiders that the issue of Treasury Bills' will place the colonies much more under the domination of bankers, and is certain to crepto many new difficulties. It believes it would bo better to submit to the price neoeasaiy to fjoaf, a permanent loan, as if tho Bills are taken up it is possible tba r - London will be Hooded with twelve millions of floating debt within a year. Paris, December 20. In a coiijjict on the Tunisian j frontier 160' Arabs were killed, New Yoke. D^^^^^j^B The H'^^^^m^^H

Washington, December iiO. The American navy is secretly massing in the South Pacific. Ottawa, December 20. The Liberals in Quebec are bitterly indignant at the dismissal of the Hon. H. Mercier. The FrencL population are supporting hiiu, and it is expected the new Government formed in Quebec will be defeated and haye to dissolve in order to secure a majority. The Hon H. Mercier denounced Lieut.-Governor Hagers as a malicious political opponent. iuo de Janiero, December 20.

A conflict has taken place between the police and the people of Pernambuco, and it is reported that sixty have been killed

A revolt has broken out in Espiritu Santo. A province on the Atlantic, south of Bdhia, also is critical. Cairo, December 19.

A monk that escaped from Khar toutn states that Slatiu Bey is at Omdurman, and though he is free, is closely watched in order to provide against his escape. [Slatin Boy during the Soudan war a as Governor of Dai fur, an extensive territory belonging to Egypt, to the westward of Eordophan, but his supplies becoming exhausted he yielded to the Mahdites in order to avoid bloodshed, and was carried away prisoner.]