NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4060, 11 March 1892, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

[UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.] ENC-USH Lopes, March 9. The ship Theophane, of 1519 tons, under command of Captain Nelson, whipb left Newcastle for Mollendo, |H South Ameiicn, in December, has 0 reinsured in London at a premium of 60guioeof, ns it is feaied she has, 6 beea lost, 9 At a meeting of the creditors of H Benzon, "Tho Jubilee Plunger," it l " was mentioned that the whereabouts '" of the debtor was unknown. |; At ibfl annual meeting of the ' Chamber of Commerce, the establishment of tribunals of commerce was urged. a The Rev Mt Calve % Fiji mission* * aryisdfjd. 11 The Austrian and New Zealand " Mortgage Company deck' esadividend of 5| per cent for the yair, and " carries forward a sum of £2OOO. 6 New Zealand Midland Railway B Company has no|j6ed that interest 11 upon debentures is provided for three '• years, 1 Davis, of Sydney, has sailed from ' Liverpool for the United States, and 1 will attempt to swim the Niagara 1 Falls. 1 It is reported that the publishers 3 of literature in Hong Kong inciting 5 the people to attack the Europeans, ' have been arrested, *dod their plant ' destroyed, 3 Colonel Hill advocates Imperial ' commercial federation and the decimal > system, 1 ' Tho votes recorded by LJejitepnt ' General Sir L, Peily,' member for | Hackney Nesth, Sir J. H, Pulleston, ' member for Devonport, and Mr W. If. Burdett.Ooutts, member for Westminster, in the House of Ooinnions, ' in favour of a grant for defraying the ' expenses of a survey of a railwty route from Mombassa to Lake Victoria Nyanza, have been challenged, on the ground that (hey, as members of the East; African Company, aje interested parties, Tho debate'on the matter has been adjourned, In the House of. LorJa, Lord Knntsford has introduced a bill pro- '. viding thai the TJnited Kingdom | shall recognise probate and letters of i administration granted in any part of < the Empire. Mr Atkinson, a member of the ' House of Commons, who has lately j been violent in language and behaviour both in and out of the House, is t confined in a lunatic asylum at Nice, t Shareholders in the Mercantile i Bank of Victoria favour the proposal f to reform the Company, The feeliog ' against the Associated Banks, for: not ( coming to its assistance is general,, f Mr Justin M'CaUby has issued ' writs in the French Courts, demand" i ing the investment of the P.tiis funds . in the names of Messrs Sexton and r Dillon, and himself. A Lord George Hamilton) First Lord ' of the Admiralty, stated i)i the House of Commons that the Naval Con- t siructio.i Estimates would be limited I this year to tho building of three j< mon-of-war and ten torpedo boats, »

March 8. Sir Charles Tupper, High Commissioner for Canada, believes tinit the Murqnta -of Salisbury's reserve wpeotiog the JJehrirjg Sea,

Fisheries will prevent, the rookeries "'■: being raided. Tte.Me of Cumberland bas ' agreed to receive the interest on. tlie Guelph Fund on condition that hia heir 13 recognised as the Duke of Brunswick, The German commercial treaties "Pldv to the British colonies under the " most favoured nation" clause. Snowstorms have been raging in England... .... ■, £.V The British steamer Messina-ha* ' ; foundered in the Gulf of Gascony. Twenty-five lives were lost. Mrs Osborne pleaded Guilty to the [charge of perjury,-and. was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment with hard labour. Mrs Hargreavca an- ■-.£ pealed to the Judge on behalf of her former friend for mercy, - ' : It is reported that the Emperor of Germany has threatened to pulverise Russia, and the Czar retorts that he "* will throw half a million troops on the German frontier, , ,-, ' ■ ■ FOREIGN.: .-!

-'Some, March 9; The Italian Government has adopted a rifle similar in construction to the Mannlicher, . . Washington,' March 9, Senator Bland's Silver Bill will probably pass both houses. News from South America reports that an outbreak of Indians has occurred in Bolivia;' They were : assaulted by. troops, and defeated with great slaughter, 1000 being killed/* .. Ottawa, March »\ The Canadian Government has appointed a Koyal Commission on the Liquor Traffic. , -■-,..... _lu Quebec,Bo Conservatives, including the members of the Government, have been elected, as against six Liberals, Mr Mercier's colleagues have been defeated, and it is certain that tho' Government will have a working majority. '-■-,! . tawYonK,.Marcb.9. Sir G. S,' Baden Powell, one of the British Uoramissionera re'the Behring Sea dispute, asserts that the discussion of the question is proceeding amicably. The Government is rebuilding the defences of New York, and trebling tho armament, . Washington, March 9. The Behring Sea Treaty has been submitted to the Senate, where it received sovero criticism, and was referred to'acommittee. The Government has replied to Lord Salisbury, insisting oh fb~ renewal of the modus vmmli. ■ Melbourne, March 9. It has transpired that the cause of the suspension of the Mercantile Bank was the treatment it received at the hands of tho Associated Banks, which offered to lend it £IOO,OOO, but required security practically atnountins? to £250,000.