CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4494, 4 August 1893, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

British Gnd Foreiqn 2, • Tho Select Houbo of Lords unanimously eliminated tho betterment principle from the County Councils Bill for the improvement of London. The Pall Mall Gazette publishes a forecast of the Behring Commission's award, predicting that England's claims will be upheld throughout, and that stringent regulations will be laid down for the future a'Jminjstah tion of the ewl fisheries,. Mr Gladstone, in a letter to hia constituents, justifioß the retention of the Irish members at Westminster, and Bays it is ridiculous to supposo that they can control decisions upon English' questions. When the Home Bulo M i B res ported from committee, intend to move all the amendments which were shut ont by the closure. The "Cowes Week," the great yachting carnival of the year, opened on Monday. The Handicap fiace for Her Majesty's Cup was won by the German Emperor's Meteor (better known by its original the Thistle). Tho Valkyrie was disqualified through sailing a wrong course. A burglary has been committed at the residence of the Countess of Wilton, at M.ainenhead, and her .jewels, of the value of several tjiousandpounds, have beep stolen, , . The committee' presided over by pord Oublow, appointed to enquire into the question of jjarkicg frozen meat, bave submitted their report, They find that there has been much ; • evasion of the Tradea-Mark Act, bat that the offenoa is principally confined to the retail trade, They believo that in (he event of jmported wqat, x

, marked and recognised by the ptiblic, • ita popularity will increase losuoh an |v, , extent that it will diaplace second- ; . olaas Homo grown meat. The couimittee recommend that butohers, j dealing in imported m: a!, should be registered. The inquest oonoludcd to-day on the remains of Mr Richnrds, of Broadstairs, a bathing place in Kent, who was killed a week ago through tho cxI ' ■ plosion of a parcel brought to him ; • through the post. The evidenco adduced failed to show a causo for tho .; • outrage, aad tho mystery romnins unsolved. • Tho coalowners aro offering to • ■ negotH&jpjMto of a compromise, ; * : Thfminers wfe issued a manifesto , stating that the average wages only amount to eightpenee per hour, and ' that they have nevor shared in tho high prices when the times were good. The strikers at Dewsbury attacked the working miners. The police were tilled in and during an affray several of them were injured, Sydney, August 2. Tho *®fyje for the lust month ' shows a deficiency of i' 114,000. Buda Festii, August 2 The Hungarian harvest is largely in excess of the estimate New Yobk, August 1. Nowb has been received that peaje is restored in Nicaragua. Buenos Ayrks, August 2. The Argentine Congress has refused to interfere to suppress the revolution in San Luis and Rosario, Paris, August 1. It is oflicia'ly announced that f'O - blockade ol' Sism is raised. Tho concessions made by Siam in. elude half of liuang Prabang on the Mekong, but no islands in the Gulf cf Siam. No Siamese forces aro to be maintained at Buttainbong, inr are any warships ti he kept on the Great Lake or en tho Mekong.