NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 4014, 16 January 1892, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

KISS. (By Telegraph,-Press Association,) London, January H, Mr W, Lidderdale, governor of the Bank of England, states that it is unlikely that Baring's estate will make claim on the guarantors. A cornmißßion will probably bo sot up to consider Mr Chamberlain's pension scheme, Sir A Borthwick, M.P. for Kensington South, is preparing a Bill which he proposes to iutroduoe in the House of Commons providing for extonding the franohise to women,

.In the discussion on Professor Stuart's paper Sir Crichton Browne snitl he regretted the expansion of colonial universities, m it would tend to lessen the number of colonial students at Oxford and Cambridge Universjties. He pointed oi)t that after attending the Home universities the studenta returned to Australia filled with love for England. He expressed hope that new centres of art and sciences would be established, Mr Matthews, Home Secretary, speakjng at said it\vould be little'shori of criminal t] evacuate Egypt at present. Government would introduce free education in Ireland on Tuesday, The New Zealand and River Plate Land and Mortgage Agency Company has placed £IO,OOO to credit, and re tained the dividend fund in preference to declaring a dividend. The necessary appropriations for New Zealand and River Plate, together with shrinking in the prices of the company's investLondon, amounted to £90,000, No considerable portion was likely to belos.t,

The Miners' .federation jjas resolved, tp resist any reduction in wages, January J3, Under the new army regulations the Governors of the colonies noininqte colonial officers, who must le between the ag«s of 18 and 22. A lqjjonjqtive esplgded in some steel works in Mertbyr Tydvil, .Sooth Wales, resulting in the death of seven workmen. Nelson Bros, have declared a dividend of 10 per cent,, and carried forward £UfiOO. ' ... "•'. I'abis, January 14. The manager arra'actresses at the Realism l'h'eatrs jfy the* city have be'jjn convicted ot taking part in a grossly immoral play, and have been sentenced to various terms ol imprisonment.