NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4035, 11 February 1892, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

ENGLISH. ' (Per United Press Association). London, February 8. The ..Western Australian loau averaged £99 2s. An lusuranco agent of Wandsworth, named Carvanga, arrested in connection with the Anarchists of Wallsall, explained that so far as he knew the bombs were intended to destroy rabbits in Australia,

Tlie Catholics of Canada have been prohibited from sending their children to schools which Protestant obildren attend. ■

LoNDOir, February 0. Thousands. of people, including many workmen, daily view the remains of the late Eev. 0. H. Spurgeon, which are lying in the Tabernacle,

. The following is a forecast of the Queen's Speech at the opening of Parliament to-morrow. It will be unußiially brief: —There will be touohing reference'to the death of the Duke of Clarence iand Avondale, and the universal and spontaneous nature of the sympathy expressed at the sad event will be acknowledged, Foreign relations will be described as excellent, and there will be a regretful reference to the death of the Khedive, and every confidence will be expressed 'in the capacity and friendliness of his successor. No indication, bowover, will be given as to the future of the British policy in Egypt. Satisfaction will be exptessed.at the declaration of Zanzibar as a free port, and at the arrangement to submit the Behring Sea dispute to arbitration. The Local Government for Ireland Bill will be the' principal measure brought forward during the session. The other Bills promised are—Assisted Education for ■ Ireland, Small Holdings, Dietriot..Councils in England, Private Bill Procedure, Scot-, land Clergy Discipline, Employers' Liability. Amendment, Belief from Local Bates of Public Elementary Boboola of England, Amendment of the Law of Evidence, and Revision of Agreement between the Bank of Englandand the Government, Tbo Daily News says the leaders of the Opposition will not move an amendment to the Addresa-in-Beply. ; Mr Chaplin, Minister of Agriculture, has prohibited the import of Dutch cattle, and closed the stock markets of London to German cattle, on the ground that they aro infected with foot and mouth disease.

: Alfred Oelher bequeathed the Australian musical rights in "The Mountebanks" to Nellie Stuart, who has made arrangements with W. 8. Gilbert for tbeiight to use his libretto. Mr Musgroye has purchased the opera of" Blue Eyed Susan, I 'in which Miss Stewart is now appearing, for Australia, '. Lord Ctrrington isa candidate for the West St Pancras seat in the London County Council. He met with a warm reception at his first address to the electors. Mrs Gladstone has reoovorod from the influenza, Mr David Gray, of Peterhead, has determined to despatch one whaler to the Antarctic Ocean in August, and possibly two, H.M.S, Swinger is to be sold by auction. The Earl of Glasgow succeeds Lord Onslow as Governor of Mew Zealand FOREIGN.

Buenos Aybes, February U, The elootiona bavo not been conducted without bloodshed.

Twenty persons were killed or wounded during the riots. The Argontine eleotipna are favor* abjeto the party of peace. Washington, February 8. The United States Commissioner of Immigration reports that GO per per cent, of immigrants have their tiokets prepaid by relatives, and that British criminals are systematically sent pver under the encouragement of the Imperial Qovernment. The Commissioner advises that preventive rpeasures should be taken to put a stop to it. M'jjinjey, one of the seamed be> longing to the oruiser Baltimore, who was injured in Valparaiso, olaims £BOOO from Chili. Harvard College, one of the leading University Colleges in the United i States, supports the iden of PanBritannic contests. Ottawa, February 9. Mr i T , S. D. Thompson, Minister for Justice, has gone to Washington to arrange a reciprocity treaty with tho States. It is feared his mission will be fruitless.