CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4335, 3 February 1893, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

London, Februaty 1, The Attomey'>General estimates that the profits made by Bottoraley and bis confederates out of (he Han- ~% sard Union were over £260,000. h

Orders have been sent to Acapulco, /§-j Mexico, for H.M.fJd&met, 14 guns, |IJ one of the Pacific oeelw proceCd'to * Honolulu to watch Britisn interests in the Group. , Sir W. Hart-Dyke has given notico of a Bill to regulate the sale of colonial' I fruit. Mr T. Healey has a similar

measure in hand with respect to ..&' colonial meat. - ; ;\: ;

The head offices of the Associated Bunks in London deny that assistance was refused to the Federal Bank. The Blaok Watch has arrived at; Surz, but has been ordered not to land

as Egypt is becoming quiet. A lock-out of 100,000 miners in :: South Wales is threatened, owing to tho rejection of tho sliding scale. Five hundred of the unemployed, who left in a procession from Tower Hill for the EL iseof Commons, were-/-dispersed WjUolioe on the Thames '

The HomeEule Bill will be intro-

duced on Monday. In the debate in tho Houso of Lords on tho Addross-in-lieply, the Marquis of Salisbury approved the conduct of the Government with

regard to Egypt, and said that withdrawal would no more be difficult.

The keynote to the Ministry's Irish policy, he said, would seoure the

support of the oriminal classes, as the prerogative of the Crown had been strained to shield murderers. The agricultural classesAWsaid, were ,j suffering from waijSlßi confidence, ' ; and there was no country in the world where property was so insecure as in England. The Earl of Kinibcrley advocated continuity in foreign policy, and dwelt at length on the Khedive's youth, and his unwise advisers. The' Home Rule Bill, he said, would be no - milk and water measure. In the House of Caramons, the Hon A. J. Balfour, referring to the Gweedore incident, accused the Hon J. Mprley, Seoretary for Ireland, of using tho prerogative ofmeroy as a political weapon, in releasing Egan and Callan,. as their liberation was not part of a general amnesty. Home Rule, ho deolared, would reverse the process by which every empire was built up, He censured the proposal - to paralyse the Churches of Scotland and Wales before the House of Commons had approved of Disestablish* ment.

Mr Gladstone indignantly denied tho assertions of the last speaker, and said that every Empire was adopting local autonomy, and that the stronger the colonies grew, instead of being a weakness or discredit, they become one of the.ob.ief glories of Great Britain, and one of the main sources of its moral strength, after receiving Home Rule, He mentioned that Sir Gerald Portal had proceeded to Uganda with an open mind, to make a bona fide enquiry & tho state of affairs there. to the situation in Egypt, he said that almost tli9 wholo of Europe hod approved the action taken by his Government, and whatever his views were as to the ultimate evacuation of that country, it was the distinct duty to maintain order there now.

Sydney, February 1, The railway revenue for tho past quarter shows a falling off of £61,000 as compared with the same period of the previous year.

February 2, The Land Bill which has been introduced in the Legislative Assembly provides for tlio resumption of freo. hold lands, near towns if required, for agricultural settlement. Under tho co-operative settlement scheme, areas may. bo granted to associations comprising 24 heads of families, under the Registered Companies Act, the area chosen not to exceed 10,000 aores. Tho discussion on the measure was prevented by Sir Henry Parkos, who moved a voteof want-of-confidencein tho Government.

Melbourne, February 1. 1 The action brought by the City Newspaper Company against the Standard newspaper to recover a sum of £IOO,OOO 88 damages for breaoh of agreement, was called on to-day. Plaintiff's alleged that thoy bad agreed to purchase the evening newspapers, and that the Standard people had repudiated the agreement. By mutual consent a vordict was entered for the plaintiffs for £4OO, each party to pay their own costs, jd£ft Mr Munro, ex-Agcnt-GflflPpr been declared bankrupt, JWs;i|;j--ties amount to £94,000, and tb€ assets aro put down at £44,000. Tho balance of tlio unallotted Treasury Bills have beon taken at the Treasurer's minimum, Washington, Fobruary 1. So far Sir Julian Pauncefote, the British Minister hero, has not entered a protest against the annexation of Hawaii by tho United States. All the consuls in Hawaii have protested against the landing of the American marines. Tbo Hawaiian Minister resident in Washington believes that a joint protectorate by Greatßritain and America is possible. Ho states that the native Government will not be wiped out without a struggle. . The annexation fever is increasing in New York, though some of the newspapers declare that the Govern* ruent has no pianino the matter, and the HawaiiaiJHmt annexation bocause it them to two cents, in tho pound on American sugar, The United States warship Banger • has been ordered to leave San Francisco for Honolulu. It is reported that President Har. rison's Cabinet approve the landing of the marines, Beiilis, February 1, The Borlin newspapers asserts that tho Emperor has accepted an invitation to the marriage of tho Duke of York and the Princess May, which is to be celebrated the second week in April. Washington, February 1. The ship Thekla, fiom Philadelphia to Havre, was abandoned at sea with nine persons on board, who were loft clinging to the masts. They wore without food for thirteen days, at the end of which time they caeii lots killed a Dutchman. The K.4f|9| lived for four days on his were then resoued, all having gone mad, • The discussion on Senator Ohandler'a motion for negotiations with Hawaii as to its admission into the United States, was renewed, but led to no result. A resolution in favour of annexa* tion wag-submitted to the House of Representatives, and referred. to the Committee of Foreign Affairs. The Bteamer Gity of Pekin is ten d*ys overdue at San Franoisco, A Bill has passed the Senate pro-. Whiting dealing in '(.futures" hv ..'■'■ cotton, wheat, and Qtlw wtwtai

Rojie, Fnliruary 1. A serious earthquake hns been exporionced nt Zante, one of tlio • loniau Islands, in the Mediterranean Sea. Zerbi, a member ol tlio Italian Ohaiiiliorof Deputies, will bo put on trial for complicity in tlio bunk frauds, Athens, February 1. Most of tho buildings in Zanle wore injured by tlio earthquake, and bo shock was also felt at Stromholi, off tin west coast of Italy, Madrid, February 1. Tlio young King of Spain is ill with scarlet fever, Adelaide, Fobruary 1. A terriblo tragedy occurred in tlio Chiiit'so quarter ol the town to-day, A • Chinaman murdored his young English wife, and ahoost fatally slabbed a Chinaman whom ho thought too attentive to her. Tho murderer is suffering from tho effects of opium. Fobruary 2, The Chinese murderer baa died from the effects of the poison,