CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4321, 17 January 1893, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

London, January 14. Dr Graham, who was charged with issuing false certificates of death in conneotion with the victims of Neill, the Lambeth prisoner, was ordered by the Judge to come up for sentence when called upou, Action has been suspended in connection with Mr Ebbsmith's offer to sell to the British Government his interest in tho New Hebrides, as the Foreign Office considers the time unfavourable for approaching the Frenoli Government in oonsequence of the Panama complications. Sir Andrew Clarke is awaiting a favorable opporportunity to bring the matter forward again.

The Shipping Federation is reducing wages, but the sailors are resisting. The Euapehu'a factory - made butler is bringing 112s per cwt; dairy-made, best quality, W) j do, inferior, 90s, The Labour Conference at Bradford has passed a resolution in favour of a legal eight hours. It has also emphasized the international character of labour, and sent greetings to all the proletarial world. The Union Bank of Australia has declared a dividend of 30s per share, and oarried forward £6OOO. A Melbourne Bank has been en quiring if the London market would tnke £780,000 worth of Victorian Treasury bills, but the request has been unfavourably received by city finanoierson the ground that principal and interest .will be payable in Melbourne.

January 15, The Home Rule scheme has been finally drafted, and Mr Gladstone believes it will securo unanimity among his supporters. Ho has expressed his willingness to appoint a Scotch Committee in the House of Commons, and a Welsh Land OommiSßiou,

Mr W. O'Brien has refused to pay Lord Salisbury's costs in the libol aotion, and will bo adjudged a bankrupt,

The new Labour Party demands the abolition of tho Monarchy. The Statist Bays that the fact that the Bank of France is ceasing to purchase gold, and has given notice to tho Bank of England to prepare for the removal of its credit balance, indicates danger totlio bi-metallic system, and gravely adds to the difficulties of the politioal situation. Hong Kong, January 15. There is a great outbreak of smallpox in Shanghai. The Emperor of China has been attaoked, but is re> covering, and the Heir-Apparent is ill.

Tangiebs, January 15, The Governor of the prison in the city of Morocco is brutally using the Jews. The Powers will probably protest,

New York, January 8. One hundred and fifty persons have been injured in a railway collision at Chicago. The debris took fire after the collision, otherwise the list would not have been so large, The rumours published by the Conservative press as to the state of Mr Gladstone's health are dying out. Tho Premier has been engaged with the Cabinet in a prolonged conference on the Home Eule Bill.

The Irish members have agreed upon a scheino for tho distribution of I the funds in'the •-britls'-of thii'Paris I bankers.

The Daily News considers that the Labour party are really Socialists. Washington, January 15. Blaine is Broking. An accumulation of ice in the Ohio River is causing some, distress, as supplies cannot bo forwarded to districts along the banks, Tho authorities have ordered an attempt to bo made to remove tlie obstruction by dynamite,

The authorites of the Chicago Exhibition have invitad the Prince oi Walos to visit it.

President Cleveland has appointed Mr Carlisle Secretary to tho Trensary. Madrid, January 15. The Spanish Navy ia watching England's action with regard to Morocco, The government fear sbo may seek to establish supremacy in that country similar to her position in Egyypt. Berlin, January 15, Speaking in the Reichstag, General Yon Oaprivi said that in tho event of I war, tho Balkan States would not be likely to assist Germany against Russia, though Russia is really their most dangorouß enemy, Vienna, Januay 15. A report is current here to tho effect that the Ozarowitoh is to marry the Princesß Alice of Hesse, granddaughter of Queen Victoria.

The Servian reserves aro being put through a special course of drill. This fact ia regarded as having somo political importance. Berlin, January 15, The masters have dismissed 1000 of the miners who struck at Saarbruok, and had the leaders arrested, Home, January 15, The Pope, addressing the French ifflfion, appeals to it to accept the existing! Government, and stop thß downward course of tho Republican he says, appears to be '■lifoble to uphold the President. PWJJ taNA, January 15. ■The Wiener Tageblatt says that Russia and France have agreed, in case of war, to oaoh mobilise 000,000 men in six weeks,

Ottawa/January 14, air J. S.D.Thompson, Premier of the Dominion, in tlie course of a speech, Baid the fiscal polioy of the late Government would be continued by the present Administration. He denounoed the Opposition Party for supporting the agitation in favour oE the annexation of the Dominion W : the United States. '••a'-i The Oanadian Governmenth'aaWfeJ ramed the levying of hostile oattaP? tolls on American vessels. Hono Kong, Jauaary U, A band of Chinese robbers, who were raiding the village of Kambi, set tire to a temple,"in which fourteen hundred villagers-men, women, and children-were praying, all the inmates being burnt to death, Sydney, January 15. Some sensation has been caused in this oity owing to the ourious practices of a religious sect known as "The True Gospelitea." The body of a young woman, whoso mother belonged to ibis sect, was found in her residence very much decomposed. She had evidently been dead for some time. The sect has no belief in ministers or doctors, and the girl's mother objected to a medical man beirJfciiHed in, d&. daring that tho shortly raise her ohild from the dead. Memoubse, January 15. The Government Dairy Expert states that the farmers of Viotoria last year netted a quarter of a million proflt from butter, and this year the amount will be doubled. The industry has raised the price of land £1 per acre, and stock £1 per head. By the oapsizing of a yacht off St. Kilda, two brothers named Bond, and another person, name unknown, have been drowned, , djor The WesternAustralianParta has been prorogued. K^>, Pabis, January Id. "'-"■"'"-' At the hearing of tho charges against the Panama Canal Company directors, one of the witnesses for the prosecution testified that the late J3arou Beinach received 28,000,000 francs for inducing one contractor in connection with the canal works to retire in favour of another. The case for the proseoution has now closed. The authorities have made further seizures of documents belonging to tho Panama Canal Company, and these implicate twelvo more members of the Chamber of Deputies, including four Boulangists.

Now that the evidence of the prosecution has been heard, tho case against Charles do Leasops looks blacker than ever,

The Boulangist and Socialist press accuse President Carnot of signing tho Punania Canal Lottery Bill in 188G, although he had refused to do so the previous year, and thoy urge him to resign.

! London, January 14. A conference of members of tho Indeptndent Labour Party is being bold at Bradford. At the opening fitting, ifr J. Keir Hardie, M.P, for West Ham, defined the objects of the party, which, he said, were to secure collective ownership of all the means of production, distribution, -.mri exchange, and to obtain indepenWt representation upon all lesjialawe, governing and administrative bodies.

Mr W. T. Btead, Bpeaking as a candid friend, says that if the present Gladstone Government last until April or May, they will continue in office for two years, There is a general feeling that tho Opposition in the Houße of Commons does not wish to see a dissolution at the present stage, New York, January 14. - 'The National Association of Woolgrowers and the Chamber of Manu« faoturers have passed resolutions protesting against any removal of the duty on wool, being of opinion that the existing tariff is to the advantage of the grower, the manufacturer, and the consumer alike.