CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4326, 24 January 1893, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

- London, January 20. The distress among the cotton operatives is greater than it has ever been since the American war, and there appears to be no prospect of &,. settlement of the dispute betweenj& masters and men. ' SB January 2i.~ The London newspapers overflow with correspondence on an AntiCrinoline. L'eague. The Queen and the Priuoess of Wales decline to join the League, and refuse to express an opinion on the question. The prospectus of the League has been issued.

Robert Louis Stevenson, the novelist, in reported to be dying in Samoa. Mr H. Hayter, President of the Civil Jiingineera' Association, deolarea that a tunnel to oonneot Ireland with , Great Britain, at a depth 0f'650 feet, is feasible. The tunnel would re-> quire to be 81 miles in length, and, as an investment, would not be enticing. He thinks it is necessary, and that it wouldAfrjj to£e undertaken as a nationfltm^' In the casß brought by Arnold and Samuel Morley against the brothers Loughman, tho evidence showed that Henry Morley withdrew bis capital from his brothers' firm, and gave the Loughman brothers £50,000, and a large Bum to charities, stating that he was surrounded by a paok of swindlers.

The trial of those concerned in'the Putney murder, committed in November, resulted in Cbarlwood being sentenced to five years' imprisonment, Mrs Frauds to three years', audthe-* doctor to six mon tlis'. Dr. Cornelius Herz, who waaVresi ted at Bournemouth for complicity in tho Panama Canal frauds, has engaged Sir E. Clarke to oppose his extradition to France,

The Hon. H. Asquith, Home Secretary, addressing a meeting said it was neoessary that autonomy for Ireland should be on a large and generous scale, and ample to prevent that country being a puppet pulled by English wires.

Egan, who was imprisoned for 20 years in connection with the dynamite, outrages in Ireland some years ago, has been released from custody, The Bank of New Zealand has de« clared a dividend of 5 per cent. The Economist and Statist assert that rumours of a Victorian loan will injure the market.

Tho South Australian loan will probably be floated noxt week,

It is believed that the marriage of the Duke of York and Princess May will be celebrated in the second week of April,

Zanzibar, January 20. A small German force at Kilassa defeated two thousand Wahebas, with the loss of fifty killed. , Sydney, January 22. The Post and Telegraph Departments will shortly he amalgamated, under the Seoretary of the Post Office. Trouble is threatening at thejjfct Colliery. The direotors in 'Engmi are dissatisfied because no dividends have been paid, and they desire the mine to be worked by free labour. A maize moth is causing great destruction amongst the maize crops, Bebun, January 21, Eighteen deaths from cholera were reported at Halle to-day. Brisbane, January 22. Tho Queensland Meat Export Company has decided to issue 60,000 preferential shares,

Cairo, January 21. The Fronob and nativo press arc fomenting an anti-English feeling here, and so far the Khedivo has taken no action to repress it. New York, January 22. A passenger train oollided with an oiUank train in Acton, Madison County, Illinois. Tho wreckage caught fire and ignited tho oil. Ten passengers were parboiled and forty injured, News from Port-au-Prince states that during tlio recent rising General Hyppolite's eldest son wbb poisoned. The rising has been suppressed. Dempsey, a labour leader, has been found guilty of complicity in the poisoning of free labourers at Carnegie's Homestead Works.