NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4031, 6 February 1892, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

ENGLISH. London, February 8. ( The 8.8. Eider was not insured. The i 300,000 worth of specie which she had on board when she Btruck has been saved from the wreck, Strong efforts are being made to secure Mobsignoi Gilbert as successor ts Uardinal Manning.

February 4. The Standard urges theGovernnient to increase the grant for the Chicago Exhibition in the interests of trade. The lightering of H.M.S. Viotoria is atill proceeding. The weather remains favourable for operations, It is reported the Jewish Colonies in Palestine are a failure. The Right Hon H. H. Fowler, M.P. for Wolverhampton East, speaking at Plymouth, oharaoterised Lord Salisbury's Exeter Hall speech as the 1 worst appeal to the basest: passions of religious bigotry ever made by an English statesman, The head of each religious denomination in England will be invited to the late Rev C, H. Spurgeon's funeral. The Tabernsole will be draped in black on the occasion. The Congregational Union of Eugland has expressed its sympathy with the Baptists in the incalculable l osß they have suffered by Mr Spurgeon's death, .Mr J. B. Cox, M.P. for Clare, who recently returned to England from a tourthrough the Australasian colonies, deolared, in the course of a speech in D.ublin, that not more than 50 people in those colonies sided with the Parnellites.

Mr Cox, the Irish delegate, says there are no Parnellites in New Zea - land. Captain Osborne, whose wife has been wanted since December last on a charge of obtaining money under false pretences, is bringing her home to stand her trial. Mrs Osborne is expected to plead Guilty to the charge of f<lse pretences and appeal for mercy, in which case it is believed she may get off with a short term of imprisonment, | The particulars of this extraordinary case will be found fully reoounted in another column.] FOEEiqiT. Buenos Aires, February 4. Russian Jews in the Argentine aro discontented, and desire to return to Europe. Paris, February 4, . Cooper, one of the Englishmen imprisoned on a charge of espionage at St, Etienne, appealed, and got his sentence increased. j Washington, February 4. A conference has been arranged between representatives of Canada and the United States for the purpose of discussing reciprocity. , An, American company with a capital of two millions, has made arrangements for establishing a gambling resort on the lines of Monte Carloin an island off the Mexican coast, near Vera Croz.