NEWS BY CABLE

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4086, 11 April 1892, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE

ENGLISH. ■ London, Aptil 7. . A £IOO,OOO four per cent loan, ' placed on tbe market by the Trinidad Government averaged £lO2 8s 9d, and was subscribed twice oyer. Tbe ynluo of the imports ; of the United Kingdom last 1 month showed an increase of £1,400,000, while the exports decreased £2,000,000.. • : Sir James Pergusson,' reterririg to the rapid passage made' by tbe Meseageries- Maritimes atearner, Poly hesiah from Adelaide to Marseilles, said it was very.undesirable to sacrifice regularity of mail, service in order to seoure an occasional quicker transit. '.. • : : .'ln his Fir,man to the Khedive, .the Sultan of Turkey claims the Sinai Peninsula. : ; While the steamer .Sudplope', vvas nearing a wharf, the passengers,; of whom there were a large numb er, crowded to one side, causing .'the vessel to cfipsize. Fifty of those on bbard were drowned.' ; The directors of the Cambrian Railway Company, including Mr J. W, Maolure, member for Stretford, appeared before the Bar of the House oi Commons to-day to explain their action in..dismissing some of their who had given evidence beforo a Select Oominittee of the House, They.stated that it was not their intention to prevent tbeir ser* vasts giving evidence, and offered to make- the fullest apology for the diamißssls.

Sir M. Hicks-Boaoh moved that, the directors be reproved for their action, and Mr Gladstone spoke in support of the motion. The Radical members thought the motion, did not go far enough, and demanded that the employes who had been dismissed should either be reinstated in their old positions or bo paid compensation. ' After a long and exciting debate. Sir M. Hicks-Beach's motion was carried by 849 to 70. The Times, referring to the matter, advises the directors to pay the men compensation, The strike of Durham miners is causing permanent injury to the iron trade. . Outrages are being committed in County Gal way, and on Lord Clanricarde's estate, in Lougbrea, CO sheep have been found houghed. r • FOREIGN.. Brussels, April 7.. Eighty dynamite tartridges were found in a garden in Auvelais. Beblix- April 7. A large number .of Anarchists have been arrested here. Count von Caprivi is visiting Carlsbad for the sake of the medicinal springs, He is regarded as preparing to resign the Chancellorship at no distant date, owing to' the dispute with Herr Boetticber, Seoretary of State for the Interior, ■ < • Albany, April 9. , The barque Kingdom of Saxony which was driven ashore and .sunk recently during a heavy squall, has j been floated without injury. Pabis, April 8. The' Chamber of Deputies has voted 8,200,000 francs for the representation of the nation at the Chicago Exhibition, : : Colonel Humbert states that the position of the French troops m ■ the Soudan is desperate, and 'they are unable to retreat, or to advance,