NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4048, 26 February 1892, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

ENGLISH. London, February 28, The Mr Lidderdale who is missing isabankeratllminister, in Somersetshire, aud not the son of the Governor of the Bank of England, The police disbelieve the drowning theory, and consider that Mr Lidderdale has been kidnapped by an American lady who had declared that she would not marry any other man. The Marquis of Blandford, son and heir of the Duke of Marlborough, applied to Mr Justice Butt for an order to compel his father to make an increase in his annual allowance of £BBO, but his Honour decided that he had no jurisdiction in the matter. The creditors of William Perry & Co., the Sydney merchants, unanimously passed a resolution agreeing to accept 15s in the £ on unsecured claims. Universal sympathy is expressed for the firm in their misfqiv tune,

The mail steamer Kaiser Wilhelm, which wont ashore at the mouth oi the Scheldt River, had been floated, and Las proceeded on her voyage, Signor IM and Sir Gibson Craig sail for Australia in the s,s. Ophir. M. Viaconoelles, a former director of the Portuguese Railway Companies, has committed suicide. He was involved in some soaudals which came to light recently. The Earl of Derby is in a critical state of health,

Obituary-Sir Henry Cotton, late Lord Justice of Appeal, Mr Gladstone returns from the Continent on Thursday.

The motion tabled in the House of ! Commons by.Mr Samuel Smith, M.P. for Flintshire, providing for the disestablishment of the Welch Church, wasrejpotedbyainajorityof47. j Mr' Wise,|qrinerlv Attorney-Gene-ral of New SbM Wales, addressed a meeting at H|gl, in Buokingbams shire, at the invitation of the Home Counta'Liberal Union, Lord; Cars rington presiding. He said that the refusal to grant autonomy to Ireland ff<j|Jd create perpetual discord in the Umtetf StateY. and Australia, and ridiouled ; the fear entertained by Lords Salisbury and Knutsford, that tl)e granting of autonomy would cause t|)e sepesßjon of the cqlonies, He .considered Mr foreign ! policy was the best iqr a it was to hor interest to maintain I friendship with France,

In tlis coarse of bis address to the ratepayers at Slough, Lord Carrington made no reference to colonial jubjeots. ■•'■

Her Majesty the Queen has paid a visit to the Duke of Clarence's coffin.

Under Mr Chaplin's Small Holdirigs Bill, County Councils will be given power to borrow for the purpose of purchasing lands, and will be allowed to sell between one and .fifty acres, the annual value not to exceed £6O. A quarter of the money is to be paid down at the time of purohase, a quarter to be ut perpetual rent Jharge, redeemable at will, and the balance to extend over 50 years, The leases are not to exceed ten acres. Sir W.Harcourtßpoke in support of the measure, but said he desired to | see the compulsory purchase olause ; introduced, The Bill vmb read a first time amid oheers.

Mr Samuel Bmith, M.P. for Flintshire, has moved for the disendow* nnent of the Welsh Ohurcli. Mr Morland, ex "tutor at Oxford University, who was arrested a few days ago on a oharge of blackmailing Lord Hothfield, is to be proceeded against on further charges of blackmailing Lords Clifton, Chesterfield, Carnarvon, Ormthwaite, Aylesford, and. Eussell, The hearing of the first oharge came on to-day, when it was proved Morland had undergone a sentence some time ago for perjury. The Magistrate remarked that the Treasury ought to prosecute. The case was remanded,

On Friday, Mr Balfour will move that Mr De Cobain be expelled unless he is in.Ms place in the House on the followin|Tuesday, The 'Agentß'General of the Australasian Colonies will interview Mr Stanhope, Minister of War, repeoting the appointment of a military adviser for the colonies, *

FOREIGN. Calcuita, February U, News from Burmah states that the British column relieved Sodon after sharp fighting with the Kacohyiens, whom they drove out of a strongly intrenohed position. The British losa was fiyo killed and twenty-six wounded, while that of the enemy is estimated at rather more.