NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4039, 16 February 1892, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

(Per United Press Association). . Emm. . London, February 13. H.M.S. Victoria, which went ashore near Pilalea, on tha Greek coast, and subsequently floated off, has arrived at Malta, Lord Carrington advocates that the London Council should work tbecity tramways, and that the should he (rented well, something like what is done in Sydney. He also urges that the Betterment Act should be applied to all property benefited by municipal improvements. Mr Wise will speak at Slough in support of Lord Carrington's adverse criticism of the colonial policy of Lord Knutsford, aud will at the same time explain the colonial views on "Hume Rule for Ireland,

Colonial stocks are firmer, owing to cablegrams published that the Associated Bauks in Melbourne.are taking up the Victorian Treasury bills, which is regardid as an intention to borrow locally.

February 14. .Mr Shaw, of Uoventry, claims to have invented a praotical flying machine, the pinions of which are 24ft 6 in iu breadth and 100 ft long. Lord Bandolpb Churchill's constituents hold a meeting to consider whether they should reflect, objection bping taken to his fiokleness and versatility.

Mr Chamberlain, in liis attack on Mr Gladstone, demanded that the Liberals should unfold their Home Rule scheme, and denounoed the attempt to embarrass tho Gorernment in their relations with Egypt. The Daily Chronicle, commenting on the speech, says it has not been equalled since the days of Disraeli. Mr Morley insisted that tho Government should resign during the session. A German frigate is assisting in the salvage work upon the steamer Eider, wrecked upon the Isle of Wight,

The Earl of Stafford is seriously ill with influenza,

Mr and Mrs Kipling are sailing for the United States and Samoa. ' The Queen has consented to allow levees to be held after Eister. During the examination of Mrs Hurgreavo m the charge of larceny and perjury against Mrs Osborne, she evinced much sympathy with ihe Hocused, and subsequently visited her in prison,.

Typhus fever has appeared among the batch of Jewish emigrants forwarded 1 to New York from Odessa by Baron Hirsch, Eighty-one cases are already in the hospital. Another collision has taken place at Eastbourne between the police and the Salvation Army. The latter were dispersed and several arrested, The Director of the New Zealand Mortgage and Investment Association (Limited) are seriously thinking of dissolving the company owing to losses.' A meeting is called for the 26th instant to consider the matter. Obituary—Rev Donald Eraser and Admiral Provo Wallis, The Earl and Countess of Glasgow and family will probably sail for New Zealand early in March. Colonial stocks aro firmer, and the tone of the market is improving, The Chronicle's China correspun« dent states that General Tcheng Kaiteng has been executed on the ground of complicity in the recent massacres,

FOREIGN. Washington, February 14. The Committee of Ways and Means of Congress is in favour of admitting wool free, There is immense excitement on the New York Stock Exchange over the proposed railway amalgamation, Shares in the Pennsylvania Beading line rose £O. Abouta million and a half shares changed hands in Hew York alone,

It is now believed there is a probability of a reciprocity treaty being arranged between Canada and the United States,

Heavy frtilures in the cotton trade are expected in the United States.