CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4380, 28 March 1893, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

London, Match 25. m Hastings, charged with led assault on a nursegirl in b Park, has been fined £SO. appealed against the judg«

I Duke of Bedford died from 3eaao. His death was unexTho Duchess fround him his room,

HKB'eat has been entered againE BHof of the late Mr 11 Abington will. It is reported that Ik has left his property to MrsLungtry the celebrated actress,

The Poll Mall Gazette says that Abington Laird and Mrs Langtrj recently quarrelled, and Baird cabled to New Orleans through Mr Abrahams, solicitor, asking Mrs Langtry to agree to a reconciliation, wliici: she consented to do.

Tho Tanmanmu loan, tvndets for which close on Tuesday, attracts but little attention. In the House of Commoriß to-day, a proposal by Mr W. Allen (Liberal), member for Newcastle-under-byrne, respecting tho payment of membere, was a majority of fortyseven. of the Exchequer, the motion, said tlwt Kffin pr%t, aile, and when money ■was available, doubt the Government would give eilettM? the jircpM Tho Opposition did not debate the •question. There was a stormy all-night sitting on tho annual Mutiny Bill, during which the Speaker censured the Hon. James Lowther for obstruction.

An autumn session is likely. The Government will seek to carry tho Registration, Parish Counoils, and Employers' Liability Bills before the prorogation, Viscount Wolmer will move an amendment to the Registration Bill providing for voting by women who aro ratepayers at Parliamentary elections.

The Unionist meeting at Belfast lias been postponed until Whitsuntide.

Tho Houbo of Commons presented a most disorderly scene on Friday night. The Mutiny Bill was blocked, and did not pass till 5 o'clock in the morning,

The Speaker censured the taotica Of the Opposition, and Sir Wm, Har« court said the Government would not Itolerate further obstruction.

i Mr John Burns, speaking on the juestion of Payment of Members, Bid the honour of the House denoded that poor members should be ffltad against corruption. BMl'illiam Haroourt said payment HBfti.irinvil.ahlß after the extciii

suffrage. atimated that the cotton k) a loss of £2,000,000 ■Ming £1,000,000 in

elaborate scheme has been adopted for ths settlement of future disputes. It is asserted that uniforms of the bullet-proof cloth will be very unhealthy,

Rio de Janeiro, March 26. Insurgents sacked Allegretto, in the province of Rio Grando.

The rouidents resisted, and forty were killed.

Vienna, March 26, The British warship Cockatrice, two gues, sank after a collision in the harbour of Trieste, Her crew barely escaped with their lives. Washington, March 26. The cyclone, which devastated the State of Mississippi, destroyed Kellytown and otbor villages, Eighteen ! people were killed, ami the damage to property js a million OAicoPf|Marob24 l Owing to the Ameer's letter announcing his willingness to negotiate * respecting tho Kurram boundary, the f. British trpops have been withdrawn I Jrom that district. $ New York, Maroh 25, ( A telegram from tho .Republic of I Colombia states that a hill in the

I vicinity of the volpapo Selaric has upI heaved immense volumes of earth and ''l Btones, throwing them higb into the air, Rivera overflowed their banjis, t and great damage was done iQ the ' country. Up to the present the loss of 12 lives is reported, Paris, March 25. A leading Australian firm has informed the Minister for Agriculture

that if the French Gavernment ' persists in imposing duties on AusI tralian goods tue colonies will retaliate. n&L Sydney, March 27. named Eipa Harrison, Woolloomooloo, was outin her bed, Her HHUngHHan named Jeatea, is daBHmPnstodyon suspicion, though hardly warrant the V the supposition of bis being the crimiDal. The Agent-Generalship has been offered to Mr Forrest, M.L.C. j i • March 25, The Paris correspondent of the Berliner Tagablatt Lab been expelled ' from France for alleging in his correspondence that a son of President Carnot is identical with 11 Monsieur X," the unknown recipient of a large ' number of tho Panama Canal Company's phegues. Baron Russian h Ambasssdor, - who threatened to,

resign tho Embassy owing to suspicion being cast on him as tho unknown recipient, has received from M, Ribot, Premier, satisfactory explanations in cunnsoiion with the matter, and has withdrawn bis threat. Sydney, March 25. The annril report of tho Board of Health, in commenting upon tho precautions taken in this Colony to prevent tho spr.ad of leprosy, says that thero is considerable amount of leprosy existing among tho coloured races in New Zealand and Fiji, and that as no measures are taken in those colonies for the detootion and segregation of lepers, tho danger may bocome a serious menace to tho wellbeing of Australia. Brisbane, March 20, ■ Tho following is the new Cabinet as reconstructed by Sir Thomas M'llwraith :—Chief Secretary and Secretory for Railways, Sir Thomas M'llwraitli; Colonial Treasuior, Mr 11, M. Nelson ; Colonial Secretary, Mr 11. Tozer; Secretary'for Public Works and Mines, Mr H. Liesner; Secrotary for Public Lands, Mr A. H. Barlow; Attorney-General, Mrßyrnes; Postmaster-General and Secretary for Public lastruction, Mr W. H. Wilson, f