GENERAL INTELLIGENCE

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 4923, 17 January 1895, Page 2

GENERAL INTELLIGENCE

(Received Jan. 17,11 a.m.). Losnos, January 16. Lord E. Churchill is much weaker, It is rumoured that Sir Henry Blako, succeeds Lord Kintore as Governor of South Australia,

St James' (lazdtc suggests that Lord Brassey aspired to the control of the Admiralty, and is being sent to Victoria to avoid his voting against the Government.

The Pall Mall Ga:clle thinks Lord Brassey's special knowledge on questions of federation and imperial defence, will be of benefit to all Australasia.

There avo still ( J2 minors entombed in the Giglake Colliery at Aiullej, and there is now but small prospect of their escape.

With reference to the Sewell pro-, coss of packing butter, tho saving in freight will not be so much as appears at first sight. Butter oxperts consider that at the outside the process will not save moro than 4s 3d per hundredweight, and that even this amount will probably be caton| up by the cost of the kegs, which will be more than for ordinary but- j ter boxes.

The leading Australian and New Zealand shipping companiesare combining to raise the freights and passenger rates in order to avoid the present ruinous competition. Lord Rosebevy will shortly retire from the London County Council, i Paris, January 16, The Socialists have issued a manifesto, rejoicing at JI. Porrier's downfall. It says the ex-President has found tho weapons he had adopted for fighting the Socialists were rotten.

(Received January 17, 0.50 a.m.). Brussels, January IC. Several dootors certify that the persons said to have been poisoned by Jounaix died from natural causes,

London, January 16. The Standard assei'tb that the apparent helplessness of the Victorian Parliament has a disturbing gf ect on the Colony's stock. Buenos Ayres, January 15, The British Consul, stationed at Buenos Ayres, has left Salta, after being a, year, as ho despair of the extradition of Jaboz JJalfon? to England.