NEWS BY CABLE

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4023, 28 January 1892, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE

London, January 26. Latest advices from Mentone state that the condition of the Rev Mr Spurgeon has improved, i A. serious quarrel has taken place between Her Majesty, the Queen ot England and the Emperor William of | Germany owing to the latter'B alleged want of sympathy with the Royal Family in the loss of the Duke of Clarence and Avondale. The Princess of Wales and Prince George are expected to leave for Cannes on the Bth proximo.

Fifteen hundred cabmen in Paris have petitioned Parliament for a loan ot 100,000 francs with which to purchase cabs. The} promise to repay a tenth of the loan annually.

Ten steamers, with 4000 members of the Salvation Army on board, will meet General Booth or his return from the Australian Colonies and India, On the Suuday after his arrival, the General will review 10,000 of the Army in Hyde i"ark, The death rate at Oiford is 69 per 1000. . The Standard admits that tho result of the Rossendale election was a signal disappointment, and says it would he folly to disguise the severity I of,the defeat, .

The Irish papers; in commenting on the result of the Bossendale elec-tion-take tho opportunity of pressing Mr Gladstone to reveal his policy. ." Professor Anderson Stuart, of Sydney University, in the course of i paper before the Royal Society on I" Swallowing," quoted a remarkable case which had come under his notice in Sydney, where Dr M'Cormick, in treating a patient suffering troin can* cer, removed the whole of the lower side of the neck and upper.wallof the mouth, so that the act of swallowing could'be seen, The patient was still alive and doing well, It is considered the paper has thrown a flood of light on the treatment of diseases of the throat, Another batch of Socialists have been committed for trial for an unlaw* fui assembly at' Chelsea. The Right Hon. W. Lidderdale, Governor of the Bank of England, states that Sir 8. Griffiths' reply in connection with the strictures passed by the Queensland Government on that institution simply justifies the attack, and is entirely unsatisfactory. The Bank must utterly deoline to nccept the explanation offered, Mr V Y. Lidder* dale points out that the Bank directly and indirectly materially contributed to the filial' placing of thfl loan, and the charge, which is absolutely without. foundation, has loft the Government ill 8 diiculty, The Bank,- la goes on to say, will continue to render services in connection with existing loans, because they are already in the hands of the public, and cannot be interfered with, otherwise the relations between the institution and the Queensland Government would be brought to a close at once.

FOREIGN. Sii Petersburg, January 2G. The powers of Governors of the Provinces in Basaia have been increased in order to prevent the spread of Nihilism during the existence of the famine. ' . Berlin, January 26. 4. bal)y farmer in'this, city has'becn arrested on ft charge of murder. In his 'bouse the bodies of IS children were found; Washington, January 26. The ultimatum issued to Chili by the United States Government does not make reference to any of tlio re« cent incidents which have taken place in Valparaiso j it is simply a defence of Mr Egan'against the complaints made by the Chilian Govern-' ment.

In a message to the Congress! President Harrison Wares that lhe| United States demands should be enforced, and they must protect the prestige and dignity of the Government officials in foreign lands against insults and brutality. In New York the message has bean received vrith complete indifference, and nobody believes war is possible between the two countries, Tip mes* sage has been referred to the Foreign) Committee, The stocks are not affcoted, , Valparaiso, January 20. The Chilian Government hss withdrawn its request for the recall of the United States Minister. A circular issued by the Government request that the .■Baltimore dispute be referred to arbitration, j