CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4217, 13 September 1892, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

. Brussels, September 10, The representation of Juliet in "Eomeoand Juliet" by Miss Frances Saville, daughter of Madame'Simonsen, was an enormous success; and the pruita dmm received a great ovation. Madams Melba Bent cordial congratulations,

Oamoita, September 10, j | Lord Roberiß, Commander-in-Chief in India, has arranged a meeting with the Ameer of Afghanistan at Jelalathe head of the Khyber Pass, tn disouss the frontier difficulty and the Russian advance in ihe Pamirs.

St. Petebsdurg, September 10. The Novoe Yreroya' prediots that that Pamir question will be amicably settled without Russia making any concessions.

Paris, September 10. It is reported thai France and Russia havo agrend to insist on the English withdrawing from Egypt, M. St. Hilaire expresses the belief that Mr Gladstone will not evacuate the country, but is of opiuion that II e does not desire to annex it. ' Ottawa, September 11, Hedley, a suburb oi Quebec, has been' burned,' and' hO families rendered homeless, Tho damage is estimated at a million dollars. The Canadian Trado Unions demand theabolitionof assisleditnmigralion, London, September 10. Importers in the City warmly approve the proposal for the appointment of an expert to examine and class New Zealand produce, The Economist asserts that the elasticity has gone out of the Victorian tariff, and that it is extremely doubtful it the colony can squeeze mora taxation out of the people, Mr E. Blake, M.P. for South Longford, is urging Mr Gladstono to disclose his Irish programme, September 11. The Daily Chronicle advises the Labour Party to be moderate in its demands, and urges it to give ungrudging assistance to Mr Gladstone. Paris, September 11.' Tho Jews in Paris are being threatened with dynamite, and are appealing to the Government for prbtection.

Beblih, September 11, The German Lloyd's are abandoning the Sydney-Bamonn service. Vienna, September 11, Archduke Franz Ferdinand D'Aste starts on a tour of the world in an Austrian warship in December. He will visit Australia and New Zealand. Sydney, September 11. Nine police constables and two nonunionists were injured in the riot at Broken Hill. London, September 10. In the event of a mariiime strike in Australia, the British Seamen's Union would be uuablo to render any financial assistance. The Economist thinks thesympathy shown for tho Broken Hill strikers by one or two Colonial Ministers suggests that labour troubles in Australia will easily be resumed,

Lonoon, September 10. I The Trades Union Congress, sitting at Glasgow, has resolved in farour of the Eight Hours Bill, but permitting trades to withdraw from its provisions when ibo local Unions demand it, Another resolution which was carried iavourcd a separate Bill being introduced to give the Eight Hours System to the miners.. The Congress expelled, Bmid hisses, the delegates from the Glasgow Harbour Labourers' Union, who, it was alleged, had been systematic " scabbed."

•Mr C.Fenwick, M.P. was re-elected Parliamentary Secretary of the Congress, and it was resolved that the next meeting bo held in Belfast. September 11. The Trades Congress demands tho construction of Banitary dwellings by the State, to be lot at low rents, and also tho restriction of foreign labour. The House and Land investment Trust, which has suspended payment, is connected with the London and General Bank (also suspended), of which Mr.Jabez Spencer Balfour is Chairman.

Tho Daily Tolegrapb slates that the! House and Land Trust's liabilities' amount to two and a quarter million pounds, and that tho total liabilities of the suspended companies, including the Liberator Permanent Building and Investment Society' and the London and General Bank, amount to £7,000,000.

These failures are severely. felt throughout the United Kingdom. A private assets society has offered to buy out the depositors in the new Oriental Corporation Bank for 10s cash,

Melbourne, September 12, Tbe dispute between the Government and Captain Whitney has resulted in the ciosing of tho Colonial Ammunition Factory, The Government imported 1,000,000 rounds recently, and consequently the demand within the next few months will be insufficient to keep the factory going, Brisbane, September 12,

Perrett, who was arrested on suspicion of being a Russian spy, has obtained the expenses caused by his arrest from tho Government. Adelaide, September 12, The Government of New South Wales requested the Government of, South Australia to facilitate the movements of the police sent to Broken Hill, The Ministry, however, declined, adopting what is called a policy of Btrict neutrality. Probably this act of discourtesy towards a friendly Government will bo ventilated in the Assembly. The contractor, Mr Baxter, is unable to obtain men at Broken Hill, and haß gone to Melbourne to bring his own men up,