NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4041, 18 February 1892, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

(Per United Press Association.) Eras. London, February 15. Madame Melba makes an appeal to the Court to-morrow with a view to preventing her husband taking ex parte evidence in Vienna uniil the point has been decided whether her marriagoia an English or colonial one. February 16. Norland, the tutor at Oxford University who was exposed by Truth for feloniously blackmailing Lord Hothfield, has been arrested on the. charge and remanded. The Emperor William will -pay a visit to the Chicago Exhibition. A fierco. easterly gale, with heavy snowfalls, has been experienced in the greater part of England, delaying the trains and interfering with telegraph communication. Massenet's opera "Werther" has. been produced at Vienna with brilliant success. Obituary-Mr Charles B. StuartWortley, M.P. for Hallara division of Sheffield.

The" recovery of colonial stocks has been checked, owing!to the new railway construction policy ot Mr Shiels, tha Victorian Premier, and the discovery that ■ Victorian bonds are about to be placed on the London market,

Emigrants who went to Brazil have returned to England in a bad plight, and are entering, the workhouse's. The Government do not intend to assist the crofters to emigrate to Canada this year, ; In the House of Commons, Mr T. Sexton's amendment to the Addresß-in-Eeply, to the effect that the Irish Land Purchase Act had been a failure, and that the Government i were not competent to administer affairs in Ireland, was rejected on a snap division by 21. Many' of the Unionist Party were absent fiotn the Houße. The Address-in-Reply was then agreed to. The result of the division on Mr Sexton's amendment waß announced amidst cries of "Dissolve I dissolve I" and intense excitement prevailed in the Chamber. ■ ■•

The Daily news provincial agents of .the Conservative Party recommend that the 'general election should bo held at as early a date ae possible,

The Times blames the " Whips "• for discouraging many members of the Unionist Party from voting. .' •' Gener.il Booth was entertained at a banquet'at which there were 5000 people present. Enormous meetings have been aiv ranged in the provinces to welcome the General, ~' In the course of an interview with the representative of the-Globe, General Booth" complained of. the prejudices, existing in tho colonies against the scheme for the establishment of oversea colonies, and appealed to the people of Eugland for further monetary assistance to enable hira to carry out his project to a successful issue. •

Those arrested on suspicion of being concerned in an anarchical plot in Walsall haye been committed for trial, 'MrJustice Jeuhe granted an injunction restraining ■ Captain Armstrong from proceeding with the taking of evidence in Vienna by Commission on the ground, that he did not believe, such evidence would be admissible in in England; FQRHIW, 'v ■■■-' Berlin, February 16. . • The report that Kaiser Wilhelm's Land in German New Guinea is unfit for European colonists is confirmed. It is reported that the officials are dying off,

Paris, February 16.. The French' have oxtended their authority over the Tuat oasis south of Algeria. Caravans are now being taken under their protection. Si. Petersburg, February 16, Three hundred and fifty Polish Anarchists have been exiled to Siberia, and 160 havp ';eon sentenced to various terms of .mprisonment in prisons at WarsU,

• OirAWA, February 16. Mr J. 8, D, Thompson has sue' oeeded in arranging a basis of reciprocity between Canada and thf United States,

'' New York, February 16. : Workmen in the city have passed resolutions protesting against the execution of the Anarchists at Xeres, in Spain,