NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4050, 29 February 1892, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

ENGLISH. . . London, February 26th. The Times says that Mr Gladstone iuspired the editor of the Speaker to inipeaoh the lovalty of tho Marquis of Harrington (now Duke of Devonshire) during the crisis of 1880, and remarks that a worse attempt to stab an opponent has not' occurred of late years. • ! Mi' E. M. Young has been elected Chairman of the Wool Importers' Committee of London,, , ■ •Lord Glasgow.will take 20 servants with him to New Zealand; :' ■ . The mortality in London has risen 20per 1000. • . ■ Captain Bourke and Commander Tally, of H.M.B. Victoria, have been reprimanded in connection with the recent accident to. that vessel ort the Greek coast. ,■ At a meeting' of the Colonial Institute, Mr Arthur Olayden, of New Zealand, attacked the management of.tho Tories' represented'in most of.the Aiistraliancoloriies, where, labour interests, he said, were ignored. - Twenty thousand miners-are,under notice.: .. '"I v; The Scotch minors nro going out on strike as an indication 'that they acquiesce in the, attitude adopted by their fellow workmen.in England and Wales. A delegate from the Trades Council of Dublin has requested the Royal Commission on Labour to support the imposition of a tax on machinery. : The daughter-in-law ofLord Robert Montagu has been committed for trial (or the manslaughter other little daughter, whom she pinioned and shut up in a dark room, thus causing tier .death,. . ... ' . . . Mrs Montagu has been committed for trial on a further charge oE systematic cruelty to her three sons. It is alleged that she, punished their bciliea in order to 6aVe their souls.: The feeling against.the accused ran bo high, that durjig the hearing of tho charges additional constables had to be stationed in Court, - The Shop Hours Bill introduced by Mr W. L. Lane, member for the Eastern Division of Cork, ivas tllrown out. The principal support of the measure came, from the ranks of the Tory Party. " Iu the course ot an interview, Mr Howard Vincent, M.P., said the United. Empire, Trade League was growing in • favour, especially among the middle classes. . Arrangements had been made for holding a conference on the 22nd June and following days,' and he urged that the various Australian colonies should be strongly represented at thb gathering, and that experts should lie appointed who would bo able to influence Parliament in matters relating" to the League. The first effort of the League would be in the direction , of clearing the British Empire of . restfictive treaties, and he' pointed out that any success that was achieved would improve the commercial position of Australia in London. vTlie Pall Mall Gazette suggests that the time allowed for the carriage of mails to and from Australia should be shortened, and that the mails should be conveyed all the way by sea, so as to avoid the excessive charges incurred by their transport through Italy: and Prance. Mr J, Henniker Heatoil is ui'ging Parliament to set up a committee to enquire into the cost of the carriage of mails to the Australian colonies. He points outthat under existing arrangements the railway companies reoeive half the money, Italy and France pooketing £60,000 per annum, . FOREIGN. Berhn, February 26, A number of tho unemployed in Berlin stormed the butchers' and bakers' shops, under cover of. darkness. Repeated conflicts have taken place between the unemployed and the police, • The police charged the labour rioters, wounding many of them. Eighty arreßts were also made,