NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4107, 7 May 1892, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

[By Telegram,-Press Association,]

English.

London, May 4,

Lord Knutsford gives a recoption to members of tho Colonial Commercial Congress on 22nd May,

Mr Savill Kent, at a. conversazione of the Royal Society, exhibited a splendid pearl, produced by an artificial process,

The Manchester Chamber of Cora« merco, after tlireo day's debate, ro-

solved to urge the GovermnenUo! promote an international agrcttnent securing a stable par of exchange between gold and silver, Bnron Bramwcll, formerly a Judge of the Appeal Court, is seriously ill,

In a debito in tho House of Commons, Mr nninglianiGrahamo > accused Mr Asquiih, Q.C., M.P,, of making a swindling speech in support of public companies. He was' nitm?[|i by the Speaker and suspended. Mr Grahaaie declares that he 1 named ' because lie was a supporter of Socialism, and left the house saying that ho" did not care a d—n," and t|,at the House of- Commons was ft 6windle on Socialist questions, The House of Commons has rejected a Bill embodying the principle that local councils should bo em.< powered to confiscate the unearned increment. The Liberal leaders gup. ported it. ; ■ The London County Council; intends to ask Parliament'to pass a measure enabling women lo occupy seats on the Council, Foreign. Berlin, May 5. Erain Pasba is suffering from smallpox, i •* May 5. Congreas lias re .euacted the'/ Chinese Exclusion Bill, adding en* forced registration, and a penalty, for unlawfully entering the States, of a . year in prison, at the end of which tirao detenus are to be sent back to . China,

Another body of a woman, muti. latod in tlie snnm way., as Jack the Ripper's victims, Ims bran found lii Chicago. This is tho second -witjiin a short period. ■ Ottawa, May 4.. Twenty thousand womi'ii lltiVO signed a prtition to tho Canadian •sforliament nuking for tho suffrage. May S. The Premier, Mr Abbott, implying tc a deputation, said lie Imped woman's suffraga would become law iu Cunada, London, May 5. Lord R. Churchill, in a letter to tho Times, urges lliat an Imperial Customs Union, based on Freetradc nil round, would undoubtedly be tho best for tho Empire. St. Pirasmiito, Hay 6. The Vossisehe Zeiiung thinks that the Zollvetoin sucgested by Canada will provokori'pi'isiils.