NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4040, 17 February 1892, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

(Per United Press Assooiat'on.) : ENGLISH. London, February 15, Obituary—Dr Wilbelm Junker, African traveller and naturalist. Obituary—MrF. A. Hankey.MiP. for Chertsey, Sir CO. Sraitb, Governor of the Straits Settlement, has introduced into the Legislative Council a Bill prohibiting the Sunday working of ships, except for landing mails,

Isolated cases of foot and mouth disease continue to be reported in England, The personalty of the late Hon; Algernon Tollemache has been proved at £1,250,000, £500,000 of which is in New Zealand, Tho bulk of the. income goes to bis widow. Mr Willdx, the' Tory candidate, was,returned , for the Everton divi-J sioti of Liverpool which 1 was rendered vacant by the death of Mr Edward Whitley. Colonel Olcott has resigned the Presidency of the Tlieosophioal Society, on the gtound of ill-health, Numerous panegyrics werodelivered in the churches yesterday on tbe late Mr Spargeon. The, reported revolution in Brazil is denied, The Daily Telegraph asserts that it is understood the banks will offer the Victorian Troasury Bills privately on terms which will yield i\ per cent. The Freeman and the National Press are coalescing, Berlin, February 15, During the service in the Berlin Cathedral, at which the Emperor was present, a lunatio shouted "The millennium has come," A panic was excited, as the' congregation feared that the Anarohists were about to make some hostile demonstration, Cairo, February 14, Cherif Pasha claims that Khalifati defeated Ahdalah at Khartoum, and that fighting still continues. Ottawa, February 15, It is reported that the mission of the Hon, J. S. D. Thompson to Washington, to endeavour to effeot reciprocity with the States, has failed in consequence of Sir J. Paunceforte, the British Minister there, informing the Secretary for State for the United States that Mr Thompson had no authority to complete such arrangements. ' New Yobk, February 15. Excitement over the railway stock continues, Five million shares, valued at six millions, were sold, Auroras of astounding brilliancy have been witnessed in America, They are attributed to the spots on the. sun ooyering one-fifth of its diameter,. Washington, February 15, Typhus' fever has broken out amongst tlie German and Eussian emigrants, and 1300 have been placed in quarantine. Yokohama, February 15. The Japanese Government has voted LIOO.OOO sterling for tho repmentaiion of that country at the Chicago Exhibition. ' Valparaiso,- February J5, The sailors belonging to the. United States warship Baltimore who' were injured in the sjreep rpw are plaiming 200,000 dollars from the Chilian Government.