CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4313, 7 January 1893, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

• • . London, January 5. Mr Jabez Spencer' Balfour, lato member for Burnley, who is mixed up with several institutions whichrecently suspended payment, has left the country.: : , During the next session of-Mfl ment, Lord Onslow intends ins® duce a Bill providing for tberorandimi of imported meat with-a marjt show—mg fche country whence it came, witlr{ Of selling inferior South Imencan mutton as New Zealand, Recent high prices have mado Ausralian butter unpopular, and agents tor Danish butter liavn dropped the' price 15s in order to' secure the market. Australian agents, on the other hand, attempting to recover the market by selling consignments of, dairy-made butter irom Victoria ax from 98s to 102g, and factory-madl mm 112 a to HQs. "

to an article on Colonial afFdira, lie Tunes states that Australia is' learning that rigid economy is a necessity, and the fact that the railways should be managed on business, principles is more clearly conceded. The exports from Great Britain to Victoria during 1892*ared with the previous year, showed a decline in value of £2,070,000. The decrease to New South Wales was £2,880 000: to Queensland, £129,000; and to bomb Australia, ifioo,ooo. The exports to New Zealand for the year increased by £300,000. , : Sir Saul Samuel,, igcut-Sene al for New bouth Wales, is taking- fur« ther steps to secure medals (or volunteers. djna

Auetraiiaii stocks- aro un<sß9 owing to a feat that some o! tIiSH niea intend to place fresh loaninß the market at an early date, r™ Mr Labouchere, on tbo ground principally of expediency, protests' against the retention of tho' Irish members in the British Parliament, M he considers it would lead" tho House of Commons and the country to reject Mr Gladstone's Home Bulo proposals, ' * ..

At a special meeting of tbe Bvioted Tenants' Commission, Mr J. Dillon, M.P., expressed the opinion that the solo remedy for the trouble vlas to appoint a Board of Arbitration to Kottlo disputes and arrauge terms of j sale with the tenants. He stated that the total reoeipta in aid of tho Plan of Campaign amounted to £284,000. It is reported that Mr Gladstone will explain the provisions of the Homo Hula Bill in the House of Commons on 6th February. The Marquiß of Ripon, Colonial Secretary, has transferred tho government of Northern Beohuanaland to tho British South Africau Company-Small-pox is spreading at an alarming rate in Lancashire,

Paris, January L One of tho city papers declares that the late Baron Reinach sold the secret of the composition of smokelosjH'j powder to Germany and JMPv; Britain. Vienna, Janua®tff The railway traffic between \tSbK andßuda Pesthhas been tho heavy snowstorms. New Youk, January 5. A terrible sequel to a lynching ex* pedition is reported from Bakeravillo, the capital of Mitchell County, in North Carolina. A prisonor confined • in the local gaol was dragged Iromhis cell by an infuriated orowd and hurried to the forest on the outskirts of the town, whore tbe unfortunate wretolnvas lynched. Tho mob was followed by. seven policemen, who en* gaged tho lynchers, and a furious fight ensued, resulting in the death of the whole of the police and 25 oi tho law-breakers. Among tho latter were many of tho most prominent men in tho country.

Vienna, January 5, Nine thousand of the miners, who went out on strike at Saarbrnck, have resumed work.

Washington, January 5, Petitions are being signed in the' United States insupport of Chapman's Bill to prohibit thb employment of Canadians, of whom 800,000 cross the border daily, returning to their homes in the evening, while others remain for a longer period. Melbourne, January 5. Lord Hopetoun leaves for Not Zealand on the 15th inat. Hobart, January 5. The Acting-Governor has received a cablegram from the Marquis of ftipon, Secretary of' State for the Colonies, who fears it is impossible to meet the wishes of theCloyeramentugregard to the annoinMPj.ufVmljß tary Governor to succeed Sir Mmß Hamilton.