NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3997, 24 December 1891, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

ENGLISH(By Telegraph.—Press Association,) London, December 22. Mr Hastings, M.P. for Worcester, who is charged with obtaining a large sum of money by frauds, has been remanded, bail being refused. Liverpool has refused to confer the freedom of the uity on Mr Gladstone. Severe frosts are" being experienced throughout England and skating is general. A hundred miles of ice extend between Northampton and Wisebeaoh (in Cambridgeshire), the country having lately been flooded. Butchers are freezing old Kentish ewes for the purpose of fraudulently imitating colonial mutton. Sir E. C N. Braddon, AgentGeneral for Tasmania, will read a paper on the resources of the colonies at a meeting of the Society of Arts in March. Dr J. W. Bardaley, Bishop of Sodor and Man will be translated to the See of Carlyle, rendered vacant by the death of Dr Harvey Goodwin. Sir Thomas Brookes will be the Unionist and Mr Waden the Liberal candidate for Rossendale, rendered vacant by Lord Harrington's accession to the Dukedom of Devonshire. The Times advocates that Mi I Chamberlain should succeed Lord Harrington as leader of the Unionist Party in the House of Commons. The proposal to confer the freedom of Liverpool on Mr Gladstone was only lost by one vote less than the statutory number required. This was effected by the retirement of the Tory section, who left the Chamber amid hisses and ories of " Shame," The Times says the Unionists regret the petty slight offered to Mr Gladstone. Lady Blyth, widow ofthe kte Sir

Arthur Blyth, died at Eastbourne ■ having only survived tbe death of he husband by a fortnight. - Mrs Osborne has sued Major and Mre Hargreives, of Torquay, for slander, in alleging that she had stolen, and soil to Spinks, the „ diamond merchant, Mrs Ha%reaves'' nearls during a visit. The details . were complex, but a letter addressed 10 the Judge, and handed to counsel, led to the discovery that Mrs OsI'Ourne had negotiated Spink's bank note, whereupou her solicitor retired from 'he case. The case oreated quite a sensation. FOREIGN. Brussels, December 22. The Vicar Apostolio in China tele* graphs to Father Minn tha: a thousand Christians w«re murdered in Mongolia. Protection ■ has now arrived aud the Belgians are safe., Buenos Ayrks, DeceinCr 28. A seizure has been macK in La . Plata of a large quantity of munitiMpi, of war imported from Krupp's at Essen.' The seizure has led the Governor to increase the number of police and military. Washington, December 22. The United States military forces on the Canadian frontier will be "■ trebled within the next six months, this step being taken by way of precaution. _,. ■ Ottawa, December 21. The Ottawa Citizen, the leading conservative organ, condemns the dismissal of the Hon H. Meroier'e Government, and state that auch aats by Provincial Governor jeopardise , the dominion. December 22. . The Hon. C. E. B. de Bouchervill has formed a Tory Ministry for Quebeo, in succession to the Hon H. Mercier's Government. Caibo, December 21. Osman Digna asserts that the Mahdists are massing and will attempt to re-conquer Tokar.