CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4286, 3 December 1892, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

.London, December 1. Truth tays it is expected that the marriage of Princess May and the Duke Of York will take place in Feb. _a,ruary next. . . ... ~. *W Earl Derby is seriously ill with hoart disease and asthma. Tho Baptists' Centenary Fund in aia of missions amounts to iIOO.OOO. The financial press in England conaiaers that Baron de Rothschild's scheme is a practical measure of reli from a dangerous situation, Tho Bolton coppor operatives have advanced £20,000 to sustain tho Strikers. The New South Wales Treasury Bills are a drug on the market, and it is believed that scarcely any more will be sold. The Australian lady who presented a peal of bells to the Imperial Institute is Mrs E. M. Millor. Tho Prince of Wales, through whom the presentation was made, has written her an autograph letter, expressing his own pleasure and that of the Queen at the giftThe Emigrants Assistance Society • declares that if Lord Mayor Knill opens an emigration fund, tbo society's Jf labours will be neutralised, besides <* which the people will bo mado paupora. Washington, December 1. Senator Bland thinks that Baron do Kothscbild's scheme will play fear, ful havoo with the United Statos, and will permanently reduce the silver output. .He also considers that Baron de Rothschild's schemo will not be seriously entertained in the United States, nA New Yohk, November 80. Tho New York Times publishes a letter purporting to give tho basis of L , Mr Gladstone's Irish Homo Bute scheme. Tbo author of the letter flayß that Mr Gladstone's proposal is to mako Ireland a dominion with four provinoes, each of which will have a House of Bepresentativcß of ita own. The proviuoes are to have power to send life senators to Dublin in proportion to tho population, and the Senate ib to have Federal powers, London, December 1, The Marquis of Kipon and Mr Herbert Gladstone repudiato the do- , tails oftbe Irish Home Knle scheme * published by the New York Times, Melboobne, Decomber 1, Mrs Pender, who was. shot by ber husband, iB dead, Mrs Clara Parker has instituted an action against Mr Josoph Ulark for falso imprisonment and malicious prosecution. The damages are laid at £IO,OOO. The Government offor a reward of £25 for the discovery of the body to which the limbs lately found belong, and a reward of £IOO for information that will lead l 0 t' lo orMt °f ln(l murderer. Sydney, Decomber 1, > A bountiful wheat harvest is expected, and the opinion is hazarded that New South Wales will bo ablo to Buppl/ Jier ewo "ff.anti tbis year, wbib

another opinion, is that even il the for<'cußts are realised she will still require to import a small quantity. Capetown, November 80. Mr Cecil Rhodes contends that the construction of a telegraph line helwerii Ugimda and Egypt would be a sure means of stopping tho slave trade. Tokio, November 80. Tho .P. and 0. Company's steamer Kavenna collided with a Japanese warship in the Inland sea of Japan. The la> t'-r.-ank, and'.lie Ravenna was badly injured. No lives were lost. Later amounts show that 74 •Jajianese were drowned in the collision between the Ravenna and a Japanese warship.