CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4280, 21 November 1892, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

Londoh, November 18. '<. Scott Saunders, anex-armysur. geon, pleaded guilty to a charge of forgery to the extent. of £15,000: V Sentence was deferred. ' V \2 The election petition' against tlief Right Hon A; J. Balfour was die- v 'missed. The case Chiefly depended ion the evidence of a barber, who declared he had received £IS from MiBalfour's agent for. the purpose of bribing the eleotors. Tha barber admitted, however, that he expected ' to receive £2OO if the petition' was V successful. The judges. considered ■ tho witness', evidence was pure fabric "*' cation,

Arohdeaoon Farrar deplores the laok of interest displayed by the working classes, only 10 pet cent of whom, he contends, attend ohuroh. He considers .the principal remedy must be the abolition ; of. pew rents. A letter in the Pall ■ Mali Gazette I w arbs einl^ran« 8.. against |roce>dinq

to Australia. It stales that there are 23,000 unemployed in Sydney, and 21,000 io Melbourne. A sensation has been caused in eooial circles on its beiug learnt that Mrs Catherine Maude, the wifoof an "*' officer of high rank, had committed suicide io the hotel at which they t resided. 'MI Sydney Webb, examined before the ' - Labour Commission, gave high praise to the New Zealand Labour Bureau, and also to the effective inspection of faoteriesexercised in that Colony. The Turners' Company and Sir Itiohard Cotton propose State emigration to the,colonies as a means of ECttling labour disputes. Sir W. J. Clarke opposes the suggestion/urging that emigration would not help the workers, but rather tend y to injufe them. Archbishop .Walsh deolarcs that Mr Morley ha 9 given a plain object-lesson Vpon tho utter futility and the fraudulenoy of the Home Rule professions of the Gladstono Government. Mr Dalton'B petition against Mr Eullatn, anti-Parnollite, who was elected for South Mealh, elicited tho ■ fact that the priests threatened the electors with hell if they voted for the Parnellite candidate. Bishop Nulty's pastoral was of an extraordinary character, ■I--, ■' New York, NovemborlS. Wflreat-Britain at.d her colouies . dSupy 450,000 Bquare feet of space at the Chicago Exhibition. Grand Master Workman Powderley 7 i 8 asking the Knights of Labour to favour the exclusion of iraraigrmuu who are unable to support themselves for one year alter landn in the country, London, November 18. Reports from the wool-consuming centres convey. a good general impression that prices will rise at next series. There is good enquiry for Bradford tops. The Daily Ohroniele says the Government will not release prisoners who are serving sentences for participation in dynamite outrages. A Boyal Commission has been set up to enquiro into the system of poor law relief. Mrß Annio Besant is sending Mrs Cooper Oakley to Australia to preach "■ Theosopliy. • Paris, November 18. Baroness James Eothschild has Up converted to the. Church of *ome,