CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4269, 15 November 1892, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

London, November 12. The Standard asserts that the Cabi- \ net has decided to assist in retaining Uganda, at a cost of between £30,000 and £IO,OOO per year. Father Fay has been sentenced to a month's imprisonment on a charge of intimidating a witness at the hearing of a petition agaiust the return of Mr Patrick Fullam (Nationalist) for South Meath. One or two tenants and witnesses daily attend the Evicted Tenants Commission. Its time is only half occupied, and the enquiry is apparently fizzling ont. The Landlords' Convention de> nonnces the partiality of the Com' mission, and advises its members to refuse to give testimony. The Committee of Inspection ap< | pointed to enquire into the affairs of the Mercantile Bank of Australia has confirmed the decision to make a call of £3 per share, This affects 884 shareholders, whose unpaid capital amounts to £86,500. Tho payments of the call are to be made in instalments every three months until January, 1805, It is probable that the Bank will pay a dividend of 2s 6d next month, Caracas, Novomber 12.' The victors in the recent rebellion have demanded the surrender of a genoral who Bought refuge on the United States Bteamer Philadelphia, lying at La Guayra, and (threaten to sink her unlesa the request; is conceded. The captain has refused to give tip the general, ..

Ottawa, November 12., Mr W. 0, Van Homo, President of the Oanadjan-Facifio Railway Company, declares that the Company intend to start a line of steamers' between Vancouver and Australia, New York, November 11. Consequent on fhe unsettled state of affairs in Samoa, the United States cruiser Alliance lias been ordered thither. Washington, Novomber 12. Pending tho repeal of the M'Kinley I tariff, tho Democratic press urge the .Senate to pass Bills removing all duties on wool and other raw materials embraced in tho Bills which the House approved last session. They also urge tbut Congress be convened in April to consider the question of tariff reform. Melbourne, November 12, The five mile bioycle championship was won by Becombe, Sharp second, and Turner third. A splendid race. Time, llmin 313-sth see. Tho land revenue for the last four months bHows a deficit of £II,OOO ns compared with the Treasurers estimate for that period. Sydney, November 13. A heavy flood is coming down the Murray river. A Salvation officer, named Edybeun, and two other men, have boon drowned, while several narrow escapes are reported,

Port Darwin, November 13. Six natives have been arrested, who are suspected of being' implicated in the Bowen Straits tragedy, in which a number of Malays wore murdered. Paris, November 12. Information has been received that the French troops have captured and shot three (Germans and one Belgian, for assisting tho Duhomeyans. The French authorities in Dahomey have seized a British steamer carrying arms to the natives, and confiscated tho cargo. Sydney, November 13. The bodies of two more children suspected of being murdered by the Mackinshavobeen discovered. When the occupants moved into the premises after the Mackins hod vacated them, a piece of cloth bearing bloodstains was found along with a number of bonnet pins. The discovery goes in the direction of confirming the theory advanced that the unfortunate infants were deprived of life byipuncturing the heart with n thin, sharp instrument, or by driving some instrument into the spinal cord, One of the bodies previously found bore an indication of a puncture in the breast, though the remains were too much decomposed to enable it to be definitely ascertained whether the wound was inflioted| before or alter death.

The floor of another house foruiorly occupied by the prisoners is being taken up by tho police,. The present tenants, who succeeded tho Macktns, detected a great stench, and it is known that tho Hooting was removed and replaced whilo the premises were in the occupation of the late tenants, The digging operations of the police create intense interest,' A strong chain of evidence, obtained by the police, proves without the slightest possibility of doubt that the children were cruelly murdered, Washington, November 13, The Republicans carried California by a majority of 4000. President Harrison admits the necessity of modifying the extreme Protection policy, He complains that his party mismanaged the campaign.