NEWS BY CABLE

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4071, 24 March 1892, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE

ENGLISH London, March 21. Lord Salisbury has replied to the Washington Note, It is rumoured that he has declined to renew the modus vivendi, London, March 22. G. W. Hastings, the fraudulent M.P,, has been formally expelled from the Houfle oi Commons. Bishop Yaughan begged the Pope to let' him' remain at Salforil. ' ■" The Pope lias formally nominated Bishop |sugjan'tj) pcc'ced par'dirjal Manning, 'V '' J ."' '.'''' ' ! IjOrd (Jlasgqw declined to ask tor a warship to convey hp from Australia to New Zealand, Arthur Goring Thomas, dramatist, committed suicide by throwing himself in front of a train. , Mr Lnsker is the winner of the National Chess Tournament. Mr Gossip, of Adelaide, was last. : 3ir W. Robinson is slowly recovering from his illness. He has not yet decided whether to accept the AgentGeneralship of Western Australia or not. ■ '.'.-• ■ *...

" Tbo English (government have consented" to' appoint a''Bepart|pen't Committee lij enquire into tbo treatof. habitual* drunkards.' The Queen has gone jo flares, in thn South of Vraßfp^

Henry Ijjster and Pon, ; Liruitpd, ol Huddersfiald, are bankrupt, with lia : bilities amounting to £IOO,OOO and assets £28,000. - ■■ ■'-.■

| It is now reported that Colonel ns"»." n ■ $ t ) ,e Artillery College, Woolwich,- and'not C u ". ,nne ' Walker, ihas been nominated Military Adviser tcj the (Joloniea, IT|)e financial•ptp^s.liriticisethe Viotoriao policy outlined by MrShiela adver§e|y, ,' • : - . : '.'

Two of Mr Pritchaid Morgan's esr tates, valued, at iiO.OOO, ! have been seized as security'for costun a suit brought against him to compel him to pay a royalty on bis Welch goldmine, He was unsuccessful in bis resistance to the claims of the Crown, ;

The Rev, Hong } Cheong gave a 1 lecture to the ;Mem||s of tlio House .Gotnmohson femiiiira traffic. . He urged Epglan| i : i jhe .coal, ijSj&j'J?*China.,'. _ ' ! The Financial itßwscuKs'derß that Mr Shials 1 retrenchment schema lor Victoria is inadequate,. ■ ~lt is reported Mfs-Osborne is in a comatose state.

... London .policyholders in the Australian Mutual Provident Society intend to hold ameetiiig to agitate lor an extension of the business to England. .';■■-. •,:.'■, ~■■:.,',. '

In the House of Commons, Mr-.H, Watl, member for ,the. Camlachie Division < of Glasgow; ; v asked Lord Knut6ford whether he would ho

a 'soheme rendering South'.'/iiiitfalia an outlet for the j surplus population of India. Baron tieWorriiß;said correspondence was paßsirig,batwfien the Colonial Office and the South Australian Govern-i mont with regard to the introduction of cooliba into that colony, but no arrangement had yet been arrived at.

Strong efforts are being made to] Becure the release of Mrs Osborne prior to her accouchement, The efforts of her friends are supported by medical testimony that the prisoner suffers from severe fits of hysteria. The Standard says that owing to Lord Salisbury's refusal to renew the modus vivendi, the United State 3 authorities will seize all poachers, in Behring Sea, believing that England will leave Canada to seek the legal remedy in the jvent of the seizure of their vessels. " ■ . , , .

The Indian budget shows a surplus, ihe famine having only occurred towards the close oftho financial year.

./■ '. ■"=.'. : MEM.' ' ■;,,.'.';, Brussels, March 22. ; It 'is rumoured that a workman named Grate caused the explosion in the colliery at Cbarleroi. ..'.. a. .• Rome, March 21. News hnß. been received, from MasJowah that Captain Bettine and his escort were massacred whilst, on a visit to the Arahara province in Abyssinia.