CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4494, 11 August 1893, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

British mifortfqi J ." . London, Mr Macartney has prated to the Bouse of Commona a petition from ! South • Australia Against.Home Bule, • Mr, Gladstone.has intimated that the Houa.9 will not adjourn Hill the Home Rule Bill and Supply ha ye bee,n passed, A recess will Jihed ¥b taken, and another session will be held in autumn. '

The autumn session will be : devoted to the consideration of tlie Employers' Liability, the Parish, Councils, and the Equalising of Rates Bills. ? The * Daily, .Chronicle Btates that 40,000 Midland miners, are disouss:ng an offer of the masters to resume onkheold,terms,,.; .V ;;,,, Thirty thousand Welsh miners have] resumed work alj a'ij advapce'ofonehftlfpercent,; , ;:; ■.•■

Mr Dawes, thn well;knora ship- ' ping magnate, has been ,eleoted a director of the Suez Canal Company in place of the late Sir VV. Mackinnon.

The Allan Steamship Company has instituted a libel notion against Mr J, H. Wilson, M.P., Secretary to the Seamen's Union, for statements made by the latter reflecting on the company's treatment of its servants....,...'".-.' ;••'. '-": 'Cauioita,August ß, •■■',•'■ A political mission, undor Sir H, Durum}, will visit Oabul on behalf'of the Indian Uownmerit,' ,: ' Mblboubne, August ■ Speaking at the Mayoral lunoheon, the Minister,for defence Baid the Vic'toriah.Goverumqnt to bring about reciproWjMetween the colonies, The Treasurer stated even with vigorous retrenchment the Government would require to find new sources of revenue..*', " /