NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 4012, 14 January 1892, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

.BWUSB. (By Telegraph,-Press Association,) London, January 12. Aoifcy firm holds £700,000 of Vietorian stock, which has depreciated from 1 to 2 per cent, since purchase of five per cents. Tho residents of the Cape will make a presentation to the Duke of Clarence and Avondale on his marriage. Sir Charles Tupperand tho AgentsGeneral for the Colonies banquet Sir Bobort Herbert, of the Colonial Office, at the Hotel Windsor, on the 22nd iust. .■■"■'

In a paper read by Professor Anderson Stuart, of Australia, he denied intellectual life in the colonics, and eulogised the students as hardworking, especially, the ladies. He favours hetjarogenity in the governing bodies of universities, and advised the adequate representation of all the interests concerned, The investments of the fund9would require men of commercial experience and capacity, He further urged that the professorial Board ought to he entrusted with greater responsibility. Thehouße of .Sir John Millais, E.A., at Perth, N. 8., has been destroyed by fire, The pictures were saved.

Nearly 400oz of gold have been obtained from the Ologan mine in Merionetshire, The death is announced of LieutGeneral R. A. Doria, of the Madras Infantry. . Mr Perceval traverses statements man article published on 9th No,* veraber, and denies that it is tho intention of the New Zealand Government to make loan companies or banks conducting legitimate business pay more than formerly. The Times, in its review of the past year's scientific work, refers to Professor Anderson Stuart's important researches in connection with the structure of the eye, andexpresses the opinion that his discoveries modify existingtheories, It oonsiders that Professor Sterling's marsupial discovery is equally as interesting as the discoveries with respeot to the ornithorhynchus,

Count Leo Tolstoi writes to the Daily Telegraph that though the famine in Kussia is Bevere, the people are strangely gay and healthy, and drunkenness is rife. Auckland Harbour Board Debon. turos liaye fallen

, London, January 11 Mr W. B. Perceval, Agent-Uenaral for New Zealand, iu a letter to the Times, ably expounds and defends ■New Zealand taxation. He' denies that the taxation of foreign capital has increased, except in instances where the money has been invested in large areas of unimprovod land, Eulish doctors were consulted in the Khedive's case, but too late to save his life.

FOREIGN. Tanoieks, January 12. A great force of rebels is looting the country in the vicinity of Tangiers, Ottawa, January 11. Baroness Macdonald, widow of the late Premier of Canada, is suing the Toronto Globe for libel for stating that she had been implicated in wrongful land speculation, Valparaiso, January 12, A revolt has taken place here, two regiments concerting with tbo in* aurgeEta aro being reinforced. Mexico, January 11, A rising has taken place among the Shuka sect, General Anohola was re-elected President of the State of Chihuahua, The mob objected to the election, and killed Anciola and his secretary, subsequently taking possession of the town. Hono Kong, January 11. The reported suppression of, tho rising in Northern China is doubtful. St Petersburg, January 12, Anti-Jewish riots have broken out at Saratov, on Volga. Many houses were burnt and several Jews killed.