NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4045, 23 February 1892, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

(Per United Press Association,) SK&LISH. London, February 20. A British Government tailoring contract has been sublet to an East End firm paying Jews 85s per week, It is alleged that in the disposing of the contract the laws have been evaded. 'The question will be ventU lated in Parliament. Tho Dnndce linen mills are shortening time owing to stagnation of trade.

The Prince of Wales will shortly make a cruise in the. Mediterranean Sea in the Eoyal yacht. Admiral Tryon fell overboard while engaged in raising H.M.S. Victoria, which went ashore on the Greek coast, but was rescued in time.

The Pall Mall Gazette publishes an interview with Mr Wise, formerly Attorney-General of New South Wales. That gentleman gives it as his opinion that the labour movement in the colonies is a safety-valve for a dangerous element, and therefore really a souroa of security. He con • aiders that the Protectionist movement in his own colony is due to an acoidental majority and to the trea* chery of certain members, The Appeal Court has confirmed the verdict for the plaintiff in the slander action brought by the Acquarium Company against Mr Parkinson, a member of the London County Council. The Fall Mall Gazette considers that the opposition displayed towards Mr Balfour's Bill will assist the reunion of the frish Party, Mr Balfour's Local Government for Ireland has been coldly received by the country and the press. It is considered to be chiefly in discharge of pledges, and will inorease the 1 prospects of an early dissolution of Parliament.

i. The Financial News urges the Governments of Queensland and New Zealand to subsidise the EastomExs tension Telegraph Company. It is 'alleged that corruption has been discovered in the Marine Branch of the Canadian Service*

A yiplenf tjiundersform experienced at'. Lisbfj'i}' fj'aV fype ■ 'mjipl) damage to property. ' February 21. Mr Balfour is prepared to modify to a large extent the Irish Local Government Bill.. : l

The Observer says that colonial stocks afe being stpadily absorbed in small amounts for'purposes of legitimate ipveptnieoi ', February 19.

Ejeyere snow storms and, gales have keep experienced in the fSouth «f England. Many telegraph Ijpes ""o the ground. News from the contiuv.. °"T o ,™ four feet of snow has fallen in valley of the Rhine. ■'■ ; Severe hurricanes, attended by ft! heavy fall of snoiv, have Hooked railway triffio in England and Ireland, .., FOREM

Calootta, February 21;

Five hundred Kaobins attacked Sodon, in Upper Burmah, but were repulsed with a loss to the British troops of five killed and fourteen wounded. ' Sodon isnow besieged. Ten Sepoys were killed on their way to the place. Rio Janeiro, February 20. Latest intelligence "from Ceara reports that the aftairs in the province are much quieter. ■ The expulsion of (be Governor was the outcome of his supposing General Fonßeca, the .deposed" President. San Franoisoo, February 20. News has been received that the Tamerane, a Hawaiian whaler' has been Avreoked, and the captain and goventocn.of.the cre^'drwned.

■ Berlin, February 21. The North-German Lloyds Ship ping Company have decided not "to pay a dividend for tbe past year, and to withdraw two million marks from the reserve fund, Paris, February 21. " Deacon, who shot a young French attaobS at Nice, is well known in Parisian nnd American society. An intrigue between his wife and the attache is supposed to have been going on for two yra'rs, Deacon was admitted to bail on easy terms.