NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4063, 15 March 1892, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

J [united mess association.] ENGLISH. ! London, March 12. 1 Mr W; B. Perceval, Agent-General I for New Zealand, baa. invited the , loading colonial bankers to meet Lord [ Glasgow, the new, Governor of Now I Zealand, on Thursday next, i The cases arising out of the theft of 1 the diamond belonging to the Nizam J of Hyderabad have been settled, j Foot and mouth disease is spreads ing throughout England, Scotland, ( and Belgium, M, Clovis Bonaparte was acquitted \ on a charge of conspiracy to defraud I his wife of hor jewels., i Richard Fredk, Cavendish, a 1 nephew of the Duke of Devonshire, 1 was fined £2 for using obscene lan- [ gnage at Cambridge University, The votes of several members interested in the East African Com- | pany on the question of voting , .£20,000 to defray the expense of i surveying the railway from Momi bassa to Lake Victoria Nyanza, were i disallowed by a majority of five. ' Several Tories voted with the ' majority, but a large number did not t vote at all. i The Daily News says Mr Balfour has threatened to resign the Leader • ship ot the House of Commons in the event of a repetition of what he re> garde as a slight upon the Governpent. | Hastings, the fraudulent M.P., ad- ' mitted embezzling £6000;' Maroh 13. The weather this month is the coldest experienced in England for 22 years, His visit to Nelson Bros,' stores has impressed Lord Glasgow with the belief that a new epoch in the frozen mqat trade has been opened. The Orangerneu of Belfast ha?e expelled De Cobain, the J3x-M,P,, from their institution. Thomas Healey, a brother of Tim's, has been elected unopposed for the Wexford North seat, rendered vacant by the resignation of John Redmond. The oleotion of a member to fill the vacancy in the Kirkcaldy seat, caused by the death of Sir George Campbell, took place to-day, when Mr Dalziel (Gladstonian Liberal) was returned by a majority of 108G over his opponent] Mr Cox, the Conservative candidate, Mr G.'W. Hastings, member for East Worcestershire, who was sentenced to five years' imprisonment for fraud, will be expolled from the House of Commons. ; The Poll Mall Gazette's correspondent in- Sydney has cabled to that journal an account of an interview he bad with Sir H, Parkes on the subject of Federation,.. The ex-Pre-mier of New South Wales said he believed tho federation of tho Austra-. lasian colonies would be accomplished . within the next three years. He denounced the treachery of the Hon, E. Barton, Attorney-General in the New South Wales Ministry,.and scouted the proposal made by Sir Charles Ljlley, Chief Justice of Queensland, to facilitate the declaration of the independence of Australia, . .. FOREIGN,, • ( _. ZApißAß,March 18. . . The report that Colonel Rogers had been at Witu is not true. So far from suffering a.reyerse, heinflioted a severe defeat ou the rebel natives, .-.

Washington, March 12.' It is'rumoured that President Harrison has issued a notice to the effect that retaliatory measures will be taken against those countries which refuse to adopt reciprocal trade relations with the United States because of the provisions of tho M'Kmley Act. Brussels, March 11. By an explosion' in a coal mine at Churleroi 800 miners have been entombed, but hopes. are entertained that they will all be rescued alive, March 13, Fifty-six miners have been rescued from the mine at Cliarleroj.. It is now behaved that two hundred of the men have been killed by the explosion, The Charleroi colliery, in which the explosion took place, has caught fire, and the work of rescue' has had to b3 abandoned. It is believed that 140 persons have perished, including five women. ' Washington, March 11. In vhe event of Lord Salisbury persisting in his refusal to agree to a renewal of the modus vivendt, the United Sutes will blockade Behring Sea, _ . " Warships are making all preparations to carry out the blockade, and also to refuse all vessels entrance to the sealing grounds, The section of'the press which supports PresidentHarrison continues to make violent Attacks on England. The Cabinet are watting for Lord Salisbury to distinctly define his policy with regard to Behring Sea before taking further action in the matter, , Ottawa, March 13. The Free Press, a newspaper published in Ottawa, declares that the people of America will never sanction a war w'th Great Britain on account of the Behring Sea squabble. On the other hand it believes Lord Salisbury would sacrifice tlieinterests of Canada rather than have a serious trouble with the Cabinet of Washington, Lisbon, March 11. Information has been received here to the effect that the authorities have succeeded in quelling the revolt among the native soldiers belonging, to the Portuguese expedition on Lake Kyassa, In the engagement COO of the rebels were killed and 400 taken 1 prisoners, On the Portuguese side 11 men were killed and 31 wounded,