CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4295, 15 December 1892, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

London, December 12. Mr Gladstone will spend the winter •In Biarritz,

The man who wantonly shot at and assaulted Misa Wood (niece of Mr Goschen) and Miss Philbriok, in August last, has been pronounced to be insane, and ordered to be confined in a lunatic asylum at the Queen's pleasure, William Watson, poet, stopped the carriage in which the Duke and Duchoss of Edinburgh were driving in Windsor Park. He has since been placsfeih close confinement &i a dangerous lunatic unlit to beat large, The petition against the return o Mr W. Redmond for the East Clare seat Las been dismissed. In commentingonitß own statement x tbat the Government will shortly adopt Imperial Penny Postage, the Daily Chronicle congratulates Mr Arnold Morley, Postmaster-General, and Mr J. Henniker-Heaton, M.P,, on laying the first brick of the building of Federation, and on the prompt and courageous meeting of a popular demand, The Post Office denies the tjuth of tho Chronicle's statement,. At the wool sales prices are unchanged, but competition is very good oxcept for heavy inferior Borts. New York, December 18. Later newß from Homestead states that only six doaths have occurred among the non-Unionists who partook of tbo poisoned food. * St. Peiebsburq, December 18.

Tlin death rato in Russia from cholerjj J arrountsto2soo a week, * v Adelaide, December 18, The suggestion made by the Legislative Council to limit the amount of butter bonuses to £ 10,000, | extending over a period of three i yoars, has been agreed to by the House,