NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4074, 28 March 1892, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

ENGLISH. London, Marob 26. It is now stated that Colonel Kitchener will succeed General Grenfell in the Egyptian command, . The party oppose! to the absorption of the Bank of South Australia by the Union Bank will probably • propose the appointment of a committee of enquiry. They declare the directors are acting under the influence of panic Mr Gosohen has promised that the royalties charged in the United King, domon goldmining shall be revised, Meanwhile an arrangement will be come to between Mr Pritchard Morgan aud the Treasury, which will permit him to resume operations at his Welsh mine, • •' Shareholders of the Bank of South Australia were nnanimoua in their decision to amalgamate with the Union Bank. The Chairman stated that when the assetshad been realised the Union ought to yield a surplus of £600,000, which, with the excepted assets, should produce £lO per share. The heftrjng of the action claiming damages lor wrongful imprisonment in the Spinning House, which Daisy Hopkins brought against Mr P. Wallis, pro-prootor of Cains College, Cambridge, is proceeding. The Times says that the surplus shown by Mr. Gosehea will be smaller than was expected, and is unlikely to allow of much reduction in taxation, The Small Holdings Bill was rend the second time in the House of Commons without a division, Speaking to the motion, Mr Gladstone characterised the measure as an honest, but only a partial, effort, In the United States the dispute arouses but little popular interest, arid American qr Enijlish exohanges have. Dot been affected, The Foreign Solutions Committee recommend that the Behring Sea Treaty be ratified. The Parnell-Wood will case, in which Lieut-General Sir jjvelyn Wood and, fltbor members of his family opposed the will of Mrs Wood, the widow of Alderman Wood, of London, under whioh the bulk of the property was left to Mrs Q'Shoa (Mrs Parnell), ha,s been, satisfactorily arranged.' The last will has beon proved. The parties have also compromised as to the costs, whioh amount to £IO,OOO, March, 24. Most of the English and many American papers consider President Harrison's aqtjon mere election bluster. Members of the House of Commons who possess special knowledge of the United State, display uneasiness at the attitude adopted by the Senate and President Harrison, as they fear that the United States Government will send .warships to sweep the Canadian sealers off Behring Sea. Questions regarding the diffloulty will be asked in the House to-day, The appeal case, Attorney-General of New Zealand v, W. B. Edwards, is now being argued before the Privy Council, A European syndicate has made proposals to the Sultan of Turkey to complete a railway from Soutari, opposite Constantinople, to Bagdad, on the Tigris. : The cost is estimated at £12,000,000, and the syndicate seek to obtaintthe interest by drawing gigantic lotteries, , "' .-■ A rumour prevalent for some time is confirmed that Sir Edward Watkin M,P.,'the well-known railway mag* na'to, is about to' ipajry 'Mrs "Herbert Ingram, an old woman of eighty, vyhq has control over a fortune of £BOO,OOO The Ingram family are vehemently opposing the marriage, and Sir Edward is bringing libel aotions for comments of the press upon hi 3 action. Miss Williams, whose honour was impugned by Earl divorce 'suit"' brougli't j)is wife, intends to, sue' him for alleged slanderous s^temeiit^ ?PIP "'■■■■'■ New Yobh, Mawh 24, News from Central America reports a serous railway accident m Sonsonate, in San Salvador.: A train capsizod, 18persbnsbelngkilled and 81 injured, 1?l "'. Nni-them sealing fleet has . IJIIO *■«.."'■:■ - ° . •_.... .a | returned with a phenomenal take to |2ppp seals.' . ''r'';',;'• Omw|,Maroh24. M, Laurierhas consented to retain the, leadership"V;6f • :>l\o Canadian Opposition, and.' will % agifate for reoiprooity with the United States,