CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4399, 21 April 1893, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

■ London; April 19. Mr Valentino, the butter expert, advises tho New .South Wales Government to exhibit a working model of »' meat and butter refrigerator at the Imperial Institute. Sir cJaul Samuel is favourable to tho proposal if importorri will bear tbe expeuso., . liord Randolph Churchill, speaking to tho %e Mo Bill, said that if Great autonomy to l)u only temporary, andwaSßurotobeultimatelyabolished, leaving the country in a worso stute than before. :M( Morley, Chief Secretary for Irolnntl, said the Opposition could not argue, but could only prophesy. The policy of ooeroion bad ruined Ireland. Its executive had proved tbe weakest in the world, though England's ablest statesmen had guided it, Lord Aberdeen succeeds Lord Stanley as Governor-Goocral of Canada in September. \ Admiral Erskine succeeds Admiral Fairfax as Vice-Adn>iraloftbe Channel squadron, Thriftily Chroniclo assorts that the vigorous crusade of tbe Unionists threatens the Government, and may lead to a soctssion of Liberals from the Party* unless the' Budget deals with the death duties, " ■ 'Great preparations aro being made for a Mational.Ob.uMh demonstration against the Welsh Church Suspensory Bill., Sermons on the subject arc to be preached. in St. Paul's by the Archbishops of York mid Canterbury. A deputation representing the Durham miners waited on Mr Gladstone, and entered a protost against the proposed legislation restricting thehours oflabour for Gladstpno expressed his ■sympathy with tho objects of the deputation.*;;, wTlia-sfilteme for tho reconstruction of and. Australian Chartered Bank has been completed, except one point, on-wbich there is a difference between the London Board and the Melbourne, manager. The fall in tho price of London Chartered Bank Bharesisattribntedto panio sales by small holders, who became alarmed at thn failure of tho other bonks. The sbnros aro. recover* ing, aud aro now quoted nt £9los. The Times asserts that the'ro.js' less' alarm at the position'.of'.affairs■,in Australia. ':»;"■■■ The opinion iB increasing-jn-thp, City that it is advisable for; the 'Vio torian Government to take power, t-.v extend the five per cent. -loan, bonda for Borne years, and.also;intimate early that it lias no borrowing in London .Jorjiiseybriil years. : , %^---P : rp\. The Treasury has consented to pay an additional fifteen centimes; ? 'rer lb on the New Zealand' mails ...m''San Francisco, This is equivalent,tbifiOOJ sterling per annum,' ■■',, t--X\<;'? The Duchess of SutheCmd ; 'Bwpre that tho letter for the' destruction^; of which she has beon .fined and imprisoned, wa3 written, by tbe lato Duke to herself in 1886. It related partly to an unpleasant occurrence between tho steward of a yacht and i maid, and faine specially private she thought she was at libeity to destroy it, She believed its presence among accidental, and tnSJßßSTOTiucluded in tho order ■'•' mado by the Court. There was nothing in tho letter in reference to herself that she objected to publish.'-',...' The Judge (Sir Francis Jeune) said the act was without parallel, : and looked as though it hod beon deliberately planned, The Duchess, had noted with violonce and deceit, having apparently concealed tbe letter in her hand until she had a chanco to burn it, He was unable to accept.her statement that she was not aware of tho real effect of the ordeivof tho Court. : ''Wt:PP : -P Tho sentence upset; the- Duchess, who was allowed to go. -:bome ,'upon giving an undertaking to .surrender herself at Holloway Gaol," where, as a first-class misdemeanant, she will be be allowed to furnish her. own = cell, Her solicitors hope to obtain a partial remission of her sentence,- It : is rumoured that a writ of hakaswrpus Will be moved for on the ground that ' a peeross cannot be arrested in, civil ' cases, j^.-;:,-:-^--Paius, April 19. ; ' Commercial relations Franco and Hayli have beon broken Tho CTtisian Law, Society has BUBpp.adfid_>JM. Albert iGrevy and Renault froHpmctißing their profos? Bion for three months, ..owing to their oonneotion with the Panama Canal scandals. SvCXfh BoenosAvbes, April 19 rV The Government of the Argentine Bepublic bos decided to pay a million and a half yearly for nVjyeare towards the reduction of the public

debt, and then full interest. Perti • Apiil 19. The first death from Bmall-pox ocenrred tO<day, that of a young woman whoso attask was complicated by typhoid fever, from whiob slio bad been previously suffering. There are now twenty-five cases. Melbourne, April 19, ■■ Teale, formerly teller, and O'Shea, accountant, of the Imperial Bank, are the officials arrested, The defalca« tions already discovered :.mount to with indications of more. London, April 18. The shipowners, after considering tho terms of the compromise, remitted tbeir final deoision to the Shipping Federation, The proposals stipulate for freedom of organisation both to thorns and the Federation, and tbo shipowners are not to show any ' preference to non-unionißls. _ , The press is unanimous in considering the dock strike settled. Private shipowners aro in favour of a compromise. London, April 19,' The Shipping Federation decline to fetter the right of the employers to iombine, : or limit freedom of contract on either eido, , The members of the Federation oxpress indignation at the President of the Board of Trade inlurforing in tbo matter on an tx parte Btato- "*./ ' jHSWrs" of the dockers' strike ""' demrfthat,there is no definite prospect of an immodiate settlement Brussels, April 10. The Chamber of Representatives by 119 to 14, has approved a pro posal to confer the plural vote ot persons taxed for property, as i counterpoise to universal suffrage. The Labour Party accept the decision as an instalment of tbeir de wands, and have ordered the mei to resume work. They intend, how over, to continue the agitation fo the abolition of plural voting. Frequent collisions have taken plac at Antwerp between the strikers 'an the military, and most of the engage menle have been accompanied b bloodshed. ■'. A large cotton warehouse in Anl werp was set on fire, \ The rioteta attempted to seise i candle faotoryat Bergerbout, an

stoned tbe Fire Brigade who guarded i tho building. Tho Brigade fired on < the attacking parly, killing three of them and wounding, four, ;' ■',,