REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.
BRITISH AND FOREIGN. London, May 17. It has been announced that the measures to be introduced by the Gladstone Ministry having reference to Ireland will be confined to legislation for the relief of the distress existing in. that country being, carried out. The Australians commenced their second match to-day at Derby, where they met eleven of Derbyshire. The Australians went first to the wickets, and scored 129 in their first innings. Bannerman made the top score of 32. The English then Went in, and the Australians succeeded in getting them all out for 45 runs. In this innings Spofibrth and Palmer each took five wickets. Derbyshire then followed their innings, and when the stumps were drawn for the day, they had made 21 runs with the loss of one wicket. The weather during the whole day’s play was fine, and the ground was lively, and suited the Australians. Constantinople, May 17. The assassin of Commeroff, the late attache to the Russian Embassy here, has not yet suffered the sentence of death passed upon him. The Sultan, it appears, made a proposal to the Gear ef Russia, who had previously demanded the execution of the assassin, that the death sentence should be com* muted. The Czar, however, has refused io consent to this,,and repeats his de> maud that (he death sentence should be carried out.
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Kumara Times, Issue 1135, 19 May 1880, Page 2
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