NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 4003, 4 January 1892, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

ENGLISH. ('By Telegraph.—Press Association,) London, January 1. The death is announced cf tHe Eight Rev, Satuuol Adjai Crowtlier, D,D,, Bishop of Niger Territory. The National Bank of Now Zealand has declared an interim dividend of 5 per cent. Imports of frozen mutton for the year amounted to fourteen and threequarter million carcases, It is announced that Sir Robert 6. W, Herbert, Permanent Under-See* rotary ot the Colonial Offics, will shortly retire from the position. He will be succeeded by the Hon. Robert H. Meade, one of the Assistant Under- Secretaries, and Mr Edward Fairfield, C.M.G., who is now first clasa clerk, will bo promoted to the position of Assistant Under-Seortary. Mr John Redmond, M.P., in the course of an address to hisconstituents, expressed hipolf as hostile to separa: lion from Great Britain, and declared that the Imperial Parliament must be supreme, even if Homo Rule were granted. Questions dealt with by the Irish Parliament must be subject to tho veto of the Crown. Influenza is spreading in Essex, Hampshire, and Devonshire, the disease in the hitter county being of a virulent type, The malady is raging in Marseilles and Antwerp. The revenue collected throughout the United Kingdom last quarter was £28,600,000. Tbe Pelican Club has dissolved. The artilleryman Barber, who was injured by the bursting of a gun on board H.M.S. Cordelia in Australian waters in July last, has been pronounced unfit for service, and retired on pension. An explosion took place to-day under the Council Chambers in Dublin Castle, resulting in serious wreckage to the building. Experts declare that the explosive used was giro, cotton. Tbo Council should have met this afternoon. Many workmen were employed in the precincts of the building, but at the time of the explosion were absent at lunch. One of the high officials of the Counoil had only vacated the room two minutes previous to the explosion. I; is supposed that the explosive had been placed in the cellar underneath the Council room. Berlin, December 80. The - German Government will shortly, .adopt tor use a'shell, which

will cover in explosion a circle of 900 feot. The powder used is kept secret. Mexico, December 30. The Mexican troops have killed their General, Uarcia, and joined the rabels under General Gurgii, „ Kome, December 31. It is reported that the Pope is convening a conference of European Catholic Powers to consider a proposal to agitate in favour of the restoration of the temporal power. Paris, January 1. The Chamber of Deputies and the Senate are in conflict relative to the amount of duty■ to be imposed on petroleum. This is causing dt lay in the passage of the Tariff Bill. Madrid, January 1. The report that Japan had seized the volcanic islands adjacent to the Caroline Group is confirmed, The Spanish Government is making enquiries into the matter. St. Petersboro, January 1. A conference on the Pamir question will be held in this city in the spring between representatives of England, Kussia, China and Afghanistan, Calcutta, December 31, All the tribes who were menaoing Gilgit have submitted to British offi.cers. At the national Indian Congress, wbioh opened to-day at Nainpur, the proceedings were marW by the warmth of loyalty displayed towards England, and a hope' was expressed that perpetual union would beenjoyed, The National Indian Congress has affirmed the necessity of Deputies being elected by the people to the Legislative Council, and has demanded a reduction in the strength of the array, and general economy,