NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 4007, 8 January 1892, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

ENGLISH. (By Telegraph,-Press Association,) London, January 5. Mr John Dillon, M,P„ and M, Yictorien Bardou, the celebrated French dramatist, are suffering from the prevailing opidemic. Mr Henry Irving's revival of !' Henry VIII" at the Lyceum, was a great 'success.' The' piece was splendidly mgunted, and the dresses p described as tjie' niost magnificent whiph even Mr Irving has commanded, ",.'"'' Lord Coleridge, Lord Chief Justice of England, proposes that a council of Judges should meet the President of the High Court of Justice and the Marquis of Salisbury, to discuss desirable amendments in the procedure and practice in the Supreme Court, including a review of sentences imposed on criminals, costliness of litigation, and expenses attached to an appeal in the House of Lords. ' .Captain Fox, the'newly-appointed Commandant of |he New Zealand 1 Forges,' will jnsnept Elswick,' f o$ \vicb,, 'anrj other afsenajs befgre leaving for the colony, ''.' A cable message receives! from Melbourne stating that the Victorian Government intended to place a loan on the market instead of issuing Treasury Bills, has upset the market, and' caqsed disgust at the unstable poljoy of the ftofe'rhmenj;, '' ' , ' l iV'§ is a''wia>sprpad. opinion, among bankers and brokers that Treasury Bills must be issued, as it is doubtful whether the colony could raise half a million at 1 per cent, at par by means of a loan, ' FOREIGN. Paws/January 5, A jfrench .patched tp''Tang'|ejs, |[iW'the 'jiijl tribesh^y^frevolfe(|.' ,s ' ' '" ':' It is reported that the Duo leans is starting on a.lour through Asia Minor. ■:■ '..,.. . - ■' January G. Tfre bomb used, in tjie explosion at Dublin Oastlp is Bim}!ar',(o those made by the Fenian Dynamite School in New "Sork. ;,' \—• The French Chamber of Deputies has resolved to punish those reapon-

Bible for the collapse of the Panama Cunal scheme.' The Governpioiit decline to give financial-guarantee to enablo tho completion of the worlr. New York, January 5. ■The Herald asserts that Chili has made a complete apology to the United States for, the outrngo on tho*iilors of the warship Baltimore, The report thai the Chilian Government had apologised for the attack on Amerioan men-of-warsraen is denied, and it is mentioned that some difficulty is being experienced in adjusting the dispute, January 6, The Governor of New York declares that the Byslera of carrying out deatL sentences by means of electricity has heen attended with success, and he favours a repeal-of the edict which excluded the press eithor from beinn present or publishing details of the execution,

It is Bfated'that a wealthy English syndicate has purchased the type foundries in the TJnited States for £5,000,000, Information received lure from Mexico states that the rebels under General Garza have disbanded. Washington, January 6. The Senate has voted £20,000 to convey corn to Russia for distribution in the famine stricken districts, Two passenger trains collided in a fog ut Aladdin,' in Illinois, and the debris caught fire, Three peisous were kilted in the collision, four roasted to death, and several injured, Vienna, Janua' y 6. Influenza is ravaging Pressburg, and the mortality is equal to that from cholera, Constantinople, January 6, Influenza has made its appearance here. ... Athens, January 6, A; serious outbreak of typhoid fever, attributed to tho defective system of drainage, 'has broken out here. . •Bojie, January 6. A sum of £IO,OOO is being-col-lected in Italy for the purpose of giving a fitting celebration to the Pope next year. Paris, January 6, Tho practice of cremation h rapidly spreading in France. Lawyers and doctors are divided as to its utility. St, Petersburg, January 6, A large number of Russian Methodists are emigrating to America.