CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4344, 14 February 1893, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

London, February 11,

The proprietor of Poarson's Weekly will receive back the sum of !2G,000 invested in the" missing word " competitions, and impounded by the Court, be having given a promise to cx|vnd the amount honourably. Mr Henniker Heaton lias arranged for a deputation numbering 100 to wait on the Postmaster-General and urge the adoption of an Imperial Penny Post. Ho offers to visit tho colonies and obtain thoir assent, He denies the statement that they arc not incline to agree, Tho Times says Mr Arnold Morley is mistaken in believing that adoption of the Ponny Post is debarred by tho provisions of the Postal Convention, The Rabbi Adler has assured Sir J, (J. Bray, Agent-General for South Australia, that be has no intention of sending destitute Jews to Australia, The Postmaster-General denies that tho Government has arrived at any conclusion in favour of imperial Penny Postage He says that personally ho is not hostile to it, and the financial difficulty is not serio'uß, nor are tho administrative objections insuperable. Ho declares that it is essential that tho colonies must agreo to tho change, but they probably would bo avorse to a further reduction at present. The question, ho points out, could not be raised until the meeting of tho Postal Union in 1897, as the proposal would bo in direct opposition to the distinct pledges given by tho British representatives at the Postal Union Con« volition in 1891, Until there is a change in feeling in tho colonies it would be impossible for Great Britain to propose Penny Postage, which is distinctly opposed to tho colonies' pledges on their admission to the Postal Union, Mr Morley mentions that if Great Britain reduced the postage to a penny the colonies would have tho right to surcharge- doublo the deficiency. February 12, Tho Daily Chronicle thinks it is eaßy to petsuada United States Ministers that Hawaii wants aunexation, The opium ring are tho chief opponents, as their business would be destroyed if the islands became an American State, New York, February 11, Severe Btorms have been experienced in the Atlantic, Twelve persons, including tho captain oi tho Allan Line steamer Pomeranian, wero washed overboard. Paris, February 12, The Marseilles officials are granting vessels clean hills of health, Washington, February 12, President-elect Cleveland is in favour of a special session of Congress to repeal tho Sherman Silver Act, Sydney, February 12, Tho Eev Mr Smith, pastor of the Australian Church, is missing, He has for some time past been in the I habit of visiting the Domain at night for the purpose of expressing sympathy with tho destitute habilues. There , are signs of a struggle, and as a stick and papers belonging to the rev, gentleman have been found, it is feared ho has been murdered. The Clnrenoe river is in flood, and parts of Gtafton are inundated, It is feared that the crops in the low-lying districts have been swept away, which means a loss of hundreds of thousands of pounds,

Tho steamer Tweed has become a total wreck, /

South Grafton is four foot under water, It is roughly estimated that half tho maize crop has been des* troyed,