NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 4008, 9 January 1892, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

muss. (By Telegraph.-Press Association,) London, January 7. Gold lias been discovered on Earl Belmore's estate, Ballintrim, Tyrone, Henry Irving's sot, Lawrence, shot himself in the lungs at Belfast to-day, It is believed to be accidental, He lies in a very critical condition, The stranding o£ the barque Dominion, bound to Port Pirie, which Was wrecked in the channel early last month, was the subject of an enquiry to-day, whan the Board found the accident due to the refusal of the crew to do duty, and acquitted the captain from any blame whatever. The Times states that the result of Sir T, Elder's expedition iu Central Australia will not render more hopeful the economical value of tbe interior.

The steamers which Messrs Hud" dan, Parker and Co. are building for the New Zealand trade have been named tbe Warrimoo and lowers, The former vessel will be launched next month, and will run trips to Norway in July and August prior to leaving for the Antipodes, The Duke of Edinburgh will give a dinner to 6000 of the poor of London on the occasion of tho marriage of the Duke of Clarence and Avondale, The London and Westminster Bank, has reduced its dividends per cent. The Times considers that the reply of the Premier of Queensland to the complaint of tlio Governor of the Bank of England is extremely feeble, and that the debenture danger is not real. The Bank, it says, has always been loyal ,to Queensland, and the Banks will soon bo compelled to discuss the methods of issuing colonial loans. Obituaries—Earl of Lichfield, aetat 67; John Cashel Hoey, 0.M.G., of Dromalane, Newry, husband of the well-known authoress. Both deaths resulted from influenza. The mortality from the epidemic in Paris, Athens, Calais, Philadelphia, New - York, Boston, Kansas, and Memphis is very severe. _ Thirty thousand coses aro reported in .St Louis, U.S., 10,000 in Chicago and 50,000 in Copenhagen. In the latter instance the suddenness of the attack is very marked. Mr M, Davitt has issued a writ against the Dublin Independent, claiming £SOOO for alleged libel. Tbe influenza is spreading in North England, where the mortality has doubled. - In Northern Italy, to its ravages, industrial works aro at a complete standstill. _ at Loohmaben, a burgh of Scotland eight miles E.N.E., of Dumfrios, the death rate fio.n influenza is 51 in 1000. A secret official enquiry is being held in the explosion at Dublin Castle, The emigration returns for the year have been published. They show that the British emigrants to United States were 156,000; to Canada 22,000; to Australasia 19,000; to South Africa 9000; to Other places 11,000. The Irish emigration to tho linited States was 58,000; to Canada 1800; to other places 4000.

FOREIGN. Pakis, January 7. ' M, de Maupassant, who was removed to the asylum after a second attempt on his life in Cannes, is hopelessly insane, Cairo, January 7. , Escapees from Khartoum csnfirm the, manner of Gordon's death, and that Osman Digna ordered mutilation of the body, and exposed the head for 20 days, New York, January 7, The New York Times, asserts that Julian Panceforte, British Minister, has. advised Chili to pay the indemnity for the attack on tho Baltimore's men, and have tho matter settled by arbitration.

St Petersburg, January 1, In the famine strickon districts throughout Russia thore is acute distress, but little actual starvation, Teheran, January 7. Order has been restorod here by the Shah agreeing to'abolish the new foreign monopoly. Cairo, Januasy 7, The Khedive of Egypt is seriously • Calcutta, January 7. The British have captured Sardo in Burmab, In the fight the Kachins lost 14 killed and their leader was taken prisoner. Two of the British force wore killed,' ' Bio deJaniero, January 7. Yellow fever continues with unabated fury, A hundred deaths daily ate reported hem and in Bahia and Santos respectively.. St Peieksbubg, January 7, Fifteen :deatjjs have occurred at Lodz, in Poland, from trichinosis, and }0 othep persons aro dangerously ill. _ Ow.outta, January (},' The Indian army will require tp import a largo number of remounts during this year, and it is reported that \2fs horses wjll bo purchased ju Australia gnd {heOapp. Washington, Januayy 7, The House of Assembly has shelved the proposal to vote a sum of money for the charter of vessols to couvey food for the assistance of the Russian peasants owing to the cruelly to which th'i Jews were';subjected, and the Czar giving public dinners during the exjs.ten.ee of the faming, IJpr Yojw, Japuaiy 7, tabled proposing to abolish the sugar trust boucties, and arepeal-or the reciprocity section of the M'Kinley. tariff. .They also propose' to place wool, coal, iron ore, and tin, on the free list; ' -