NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4079, 2 April 1892, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

muss. Londok, March 30. Mr H. Bottomley denies that ho was the vendor of the Hansard Union Company, but admits that he was the promoter of the Company, and tha the net profit was £15,000, not £90,000. Dalgety and Co. have deolared a dividend of 8 per cent for tlje year, Mr Austin Chamberlain, son of the Eight Hon J, Chamberlain, has been returned unopposed for the Worcester seat in the House of Commons rendered vacant owing to the expulsion of (1, W, Hastings, conviotcd and sentenced on a charge of fraud. March 81. In an article in the Nineteenth Century, Sir O. R. Tupper expresses the opinion that an Empire Trade League will not involve the principle qf protection, and says the action of : the Agents, General |rt seeking to j abrogate the clauses of the commer* cial treaties is evidence of the Aus< tralian feeling on the subject. Apart -from the copyright of his sermons and books and his library, the property left by Mr Spurgeon only amounts to £2OOO. Fearing a large influx of the Anarchists expelled from Franco, the police in London are taking great precautions to prevent their landing in Erigland. The financial journals approve the action of' the Victorian Ban|iß in agreeing to mutually support one another. ;r The banks of the city are gratified at the nature of Sir Thomas M'lllwraith's apology,' A French gujibqat look soundings round the island of Maltn, and also managed to inspect various fortifi. cations. Her officers are believed to be in pflssessjfln 'of pips of the new defence works of the island. mma-. PffAWAi Waroh 31. sealery from the United jStgites the sum of half a million dollars as damages, owing to their emended exclusion from the Behrineßea pending (he settlement of tho dispute, ■ The officials at Vancouver Island are detaining sealing vessels. • Paws, Maroh 31. Eavachal has been arrested on suspicion of .being .the author of the last Anarchist butrages, Eavachal was siiized by tho police in a wineshop, He had two revolvers in his possession; but his attempts to use them were frustrated. When'he was'safely secured, he shouted 11 Viva l'anarchie." ~ There is great rejoicing in the city at Bavachal's arrest. A considerable.quantity of explosives was found'secreted in his lodgings. • 1 iV ';Ne# \fdHK, March 31.: Four Colorado mitifis: have shut down/' ojringi! to, "the; cheapness 1 ' of silver, throwing 250,000 men out oi employment, ■> ,

"Large areas of crops throngboutihe country have been damaged' bv floods. :, ' The Democratic Party are pushing forward Mr WML Springer's Wool BiH, ■ Colonel Ingersoll delivered tbo oration at Walt Whitman's funeral.