CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4360, 4 March 1893, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

London, March 2. Tbe prosecution of W. Barker, a member of the talking (inn of Barker and Co., which failed last year, has ken withdrawn. The Conservatives are favouring Lord Eandolph Churchill as their leader in preference to Mr Balfour. It is reported that the Australian Orangemen are supplying funds to tbeUlstermen. England is fortifying Esquimault Barbour. The Federation League professes itself satisfied that the Postal Convention cannot prohibit Imperial Penny Postage. Mr Arnold Foster intends to have tbe question disoussed in the House of Commons, Some members of tbe House of Commons are urging Mr Mundella, President of the Board of Trade, to legalise a ten hours' day for railway employes. Mr Ben Tillett headed a deputation of dockers to the Home Secretary, They threaten to strike unless power is given them to sue employers in case of injury by aocident,

The Australian Banks with head offices in London, are portioning (be Queen to veto the South Australian Unclaimed Moneys' Act of 1891. Lord Eoseberry defended tbe expansion of the empire, on the ground of the necessity of pegging out claims for the future, remembering that it was the aim of our race to mould the world according to Anglo-Saxon ideas. . Lord Onslow thought the necessity of union'for common defence would ultimately bring about Imperial Federation,

I Lord Knutsford considered that so long as England continued to com* mand tbe attachment and confidence of the colonies, would the best guarantee be given of peace and the increase of commerce. Berlin, March 2, Tho Emperor, speaking at Brandenherg, reiterated that his belief was unshaken that he was entrusted with a misßion of God, and he was confident that he would succeed in satisfying all. Ottawa, March 2. In the Dominion Parliament, Sir R, J. Cartright's motion to reduce the Customs duties and establish Free Trade, was rejected by a majority of fifty-four. Paris, March 2. The death of Madame Jules Grevy is announced. Le Figaro publishes' the evidence givi-n by Charles do Leases at the enquiry presided over by Judge Fratiqneville, showing that MM, ceftu, De Freycinet, and I 1 loquet exerted pressure to induce the Panama Canal Company to give the late Baron Reinach an additional sum of oight million francs to avoid a public trial, Tho Company partly yielded to the pressure, and gave five million francs, The Figaro is to be prosecuted for publishing the ovidence in the Panama caso beforo it had been pre" sented to tho Court. Sydney, March 3. A relief fund has been started in aid of tho farmers who have -suffered by ihe floods in the Clarence Eiver district. The agitation in favour of a dissolution of Parliament is spreading, _ and arrangements are being made to hold meetings throughout the country, J Newcastle, March 8. I Seol, chief officor of tho bartp i Annie Stafford, charged with the i manslaughter of Wm. King, whoso death ho caused by striking him with a block, and knocking him from tho topmast rigging to the deck, has been i sentenced to threo years imprison- ; ment. ' Melbourne, Maroh 3, 1 Yesterday was the hottest day for | eleven years, the thermometer regis- . tering 105 in the shade, Serious bush fires are still raging, ! Perth, March 8. At Bunbury, during the recent ' gale, the sea flooded the houses of many families, and the fruit crops sustained much damage. At Gum" 1 dalup tho Danish barque Dato, of 474 ' tons, is ashore, and apparently a total i wreck,