SUMMARISED CABLES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4148, 25 June 1892, Page 2

SUMMARISED CABLES.

~ Messrs & Barker, and Co, bankers, of 36, Mar- lane, E.O, have suspsnded payment. The liabilities are set donn at£650,000. '•■ ■ • ' ■ :

Lord Roaaberry ha 3 resigned the Chairmanship of the London County Coancil, • ," ''.'. The imperial Institute will be informally opened by a conversazione,: • , ■ •

The Court has ordered the Dwarf,-a society paper, to apologise for publishing the details of an aetion for debt commenced by Bessie Bellwood against the Duke of Manchester, with whom, when Lord Mandeville, her name used to be constantly coupled.,

The rising among Hazurus in India is at an end. ■■.-., A Boer .'" trek" lift's entered the Portuguese territory of Angola and proclaimed a Republic, Crowe and Bkkwell's business has been formed into a oompany with a capital of £570,000. ■ The Loudon County Counoil is discussing the question of water supply. It estimates that the population in and around London will be twelve and a half millions.

The inquest on the woman Clover, one of the Lambeth victims, clearly showed that she bad been poisoned. The betrothal of Prince George oi Wales will bo announced in August or September. Three men engaged in a water drinking contest at Argenteuil. They succeeded in swallowing twelve, nine, and seven quarts respectively, and all died shortly afterwards, :

Bavaobol haa been tried on five further chargos for murders near St Etienne. Ho confessed bis guilt in an address in which he gloated .over his crimes, and was .sentenced to death,

Heavy weather has been experienced at Launceston, and in the northern diatri.ts floods aro feared. Snow has fallen near Launceston, the first time for 13 years.