NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4037, 13 February 1892, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

(Per United Press Association),

ENGLISH.

London, February 11.

The late Bishop Perry leaves bequests to several charities in Melbourne, and £IOOO each to the Bishops of Melbourne and Ballarat for church plate.. Obituary—General Waller.

Tim amendment moved by Mr T. Sexton in the House of Coaim ns, in connection with the failure of the Irish Land Purchase Act, further declares the inability of the Imperial Parliament to legislate for Ireland. The Opposition support the amendment.

The Governments of Italy, France, and Sweden have been asked to appoint delegates to take part in the Behring Sea Arbitration. England and the United States will each nominate two delegates. At the half-yearly meeting of the BankofNow Zealand,theHonMr6lyn (chairman) said the deposits had in onaefld, and the credit was improving, The Bank had not been affected by the failures in Australia, Twenty thousand pounds was expected to be carried over to the next year. The new taxation in New Zealand did not aff«ct the Bank, though it would considerably affect tho Estates Com* pany. The Bank was reducing the advances in Australia, believing it to be risky in the present state of affairs there,

Four services in memory of the late Rev. C. H. Spurgeon were held in the Tabernacle.

Canon Fleming, Sankey, the Evangelist, Rev. Mr M'Laren, and many of the leading dissenters were present. The Rev. J. Munro Gibson, D,D,, ModeratoroftheßngliflhPresbyterian Synod, the RBv.t E, Heiber Evans, D,D.|Cbaitman of the Congregational Union of England, and the Rev. Drv Thomas, B, Stephenson, President of the Wesleyan Methodist Conference, took part in the services in memory of the late Rev, C. H; Spurgeon. Mr De Cobain, the recusant mem* ber for Belfast, is ill, and unablo to stand his trial. The oleotors have petitioned to have the seat declared vacant, It is stated that Bishop Clifford, of Oliftonj or Bishop Vaughan, of Salford, will be chosen as the successor to Cardinal Manning, Sir Michael Hicks Beach having refused to denounce the favoured nation clause in the treaties with Germany and Belgium, has led to much disappointment in Canada, and the press there complain that it makes parleying with the United States for reciprocity more difficult,

The Standard declares that a foolish scare possesses the market in regard to colonial stocks, because of the difficulty experienced in selling them and it deprecates people procipitating matter?,

February 10,

Heavy sales of colonial stock are being effected, and there is a general fall of 10s. Ihe issue of Treasury Bills is the chief cause of the depression,

' FOREIGN. ij New York, Febranary 11. It is rumoured that Secretary , h Blaine is intriguing to obtain General r Harrison's defeat for the Presidency. 8 He denies any intention pf resigning ■ the Secretaryship of State, t The Coinage Committee of the | Hotifle of Representatives is favourable to Mr Blaine's Free Coinage Bill, ' Sydney, February 11. , ' A sensation was caused to-day t owing to a run on tho Savings Bank jof New South Wales, Close on i £50,000 wa3 withdrawn, and the bank " is still open (8 p.m), paying all claims ' in gold. \ The position of the Bank at the end ,of the year was as follows; Deposits r £8,188,000; total assets, £3,483,000, 1 These include £1,188,000 lent on ! mortgage, £95,000 invested in deben- ' tutes, £OOO,OOO lent to the Govern, ! mm, and £1,500,000 deposited in other banks, l . Nothing is known as to the cause of i the run. i The Bank is besieged by an excited ' crowd. Tho Associated Banks have issued a notice that they are prepared to receive Savings Bank'sdeposit recoipls as cash or for deposit. February 12, • Lord Onslow, pas boojied 'on. an excursion to'ibbjna and J/apanl'leay" ing'.on lßt March'. 7 .Paris, February 11. The French Government is found- ' ing a suseujn pf Commerco'at a cost ' of£Boo,o. ■-(' ■■'■: ••. '■'"'•..',"." : s J/utton has adyo-ixced |'d per lb. Disastrous; Hoodshave occurred' in \ tie south of|France, . . • v Black jox -andl spotted typhus have d broken out in Soutberu Butjia, ■.«