NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4113, 14 May 1892, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

" Vsk (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION,) London, 11th Sffljp The election for the North Hack, ney saal in the Bouse of Commons, vacated Tby the death of Lieutenants General Sir Lewis Pelly, took place to-day, and resulted in the election of Mr Bonsfield, the Unionist candid date, by a majority of. 969 over Mr Meates, the Liberal representative. ■ Owing to the death of the Duke of Ol.irencp, Her.Majesty .the Queen has postponed 'the opening of the Imperial Institute until next year, portion will be;opened:in June business and social purposes. : t Mr G, Shipton introduced the Eight tfofirs deputation to the Government, a;i 1 stated - that, it was "not desired to include tradoa which desired exemption. The Marquis of Salisbury said ho gathered from the deputation that they admitted there was only a goneral desire for a legal eight hours, and that there was not any unanimity . in,tho-matter, He thought much additional discussion was required before any action- was taken which would embody the common wish; He deflwed if legislation-'would prove easy or snfe, and their belief that wages .would remain unaltered was a most marvel,louß conviction... He mentioned that consumption was certainly to decrease) aid employment must diminish, The Hon, A, J.' Balfour considers that tho Pan-Britannio Festival is likely to develop good .feeling between the .English-Making'raoea, but State patfpnage and control is undesirable, ; Baron Bramwell directed that his * body should be cremated at Woking, . An .expert considers the Victorian brandy tlie finest put upontbe market since flennessy's 1875. It is not earthy and; Will doubtless command a great market. • ■ Thirteen thousand fivo hundred ounces of gold have been recovered in 1 Kandt mines by the Macarthur.Potest i process; .forming U per' cent of the ■ total output at Johannes berg. ' m ' May 12. The Hon, Patrick Grevilla Nugent 1 wns eoiivioted on the oharge of ■ 1 assaulting Miss Price in a first-eta | carriage on the London and Brighton ■ railway, and sentenced to six majtths' imprisonment with hatdtaboutY* i - | Foreign, . , ' Brussels, May 11, s - Dynamite cartridges are constantly ' being found in Leige. ' 1 May 11. J a trauicar was partly demolished by a charge of dynamite but no one was killed, ! May 11. ■ The reported attaok on Portonovo by tho Dahomeyans is denied, r Ottawa, May 12, ' The Canadian Pacific Bailway has eaiwl four milions tbis year. The net profits exceed 1J per cent. ' _ Buenos Ayres, May 11. A. skating rink in the city collapsed * 8 and thirty persons were killed. ' Paris, May 12, Half the Bordeau vintage has been '' destroyed by frost, ' I Vienna, May 12. Owing to the' capßize of a raft on a river near Brody, a frontier town of Austrian Galioia, 60 * persons were drowned. '