REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 2085, 7 May 1883, Page 2

REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.

By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. BRITISH AND FOREIGN. THE PHCENIX PARK MURDERS.— SECOND TRIAL OF TIMOTHY KELLY. THE IRONWORKERS IN PENNSYLVANIA. IMPENDING STRIKE. (Received May 7, 0.30 a.m.) London, May 6. Timothy Kelly, one of the Phoenix Park prisoners, in whose case the jury were unable to agree upon a verdict, will be again brought up for trial tomorrow (Monday). (Received May 7, 0.30 a.m.) New York, May 5. The Pennsylvania ironworkers are agitating for an increase of wages, and it is feai’ed that a serious strike is impending. It is estimated that 100,000

men at Pittsburg and in the neighbourhood are connected with the movement.

[special to press association.] London, April 30. So many Irish prisoners have volunteered to become informers that the Government is seriously embarrassed in selecting those whom it accepts as Queen’s evidence. The . American branch of the Land League have adopted the Philadelphia platform. It is expected that an application will be made by the British Government to the Government at Washington to extradite a number of Fenians who are implicated by fresh disclosures made regarding the proceedings of the Invincible Society. Keefe has been executed for a murder at Cork. May 1. Stanley, one of the crew belonging to the ship British Commerce, which was run down and sunk in the Channel on Tuesday last, clung to a quantity of wreckage for several hours, and was rescued in a very exhausted condition. A letter addressed to Mr Forster, containing explosives, has been discovered by the Post-office officials, who stopped the delivery of the letter. A meeting of shipowners will be held on the 10th, to consider the proposals for floating a new Canal Company. J. O’Connor, a prominent Parnellite resident in Cork, has been imprisoned for refusing to give evidence before the secret inquiry which is being held at Dublin Castle. May 1. The Khedive has signed the new Egyptian Constitution, which is based on the scheme devised by Lord Dufferin. A number of military arrests have been made in Russia, and it is reported that a conspiracy has been discovered aiming at the abolition of the Imperial autocracy and the establishment of a republic. The Amsterdam Exhibition is not nearly equal to either the Sydney or Melbourne Exhibitions. May 2. At a banquet given by the National Liberal Club, two thousand persons were present. Mr Gladstone in his speech said that artful obstructions hampered the course of the Government in Parliament, and delayed many desirable reforms.

[Per s.s. City of Sydney, at Auckland.] Wallace Ross, oarsman of St. Johns, New Brunswick, issued a challenge to Hanlon in March to row a four or five mile race either at Toronto or St. Johns on July the Ist. . James Mullett, one of the murder conspirators, offered information on the 15th, implicating Patrick Egan and others, and information to justify the arrest of Egan when he returns from America. The reasons given by Egan for his departure from Dublin are considered unsatisfactory. It is generally believed he left because Mullett turned informer. Secret inquiries at Dublin Castle, to hear evidence of informers, continue daily. As no details are made public, no intelligence can be gained of the evidence thus far adduced, but the StarChamber manner in which the proceedings are being conducted has given rise to some ngly suspicions. The oldest inhabitant of the Dominion died on March 13th at Lake Magnetic. She was an Englishwoman, named Mary Hugh Graves, and had reached 118 years of age. Rowells, awaiting trial in the Kilnvainham Gaol, in connection with the Phoenix Park murders, died in an epileptic fit'on night of the 18th March. Judge Lawson at Belfast, on the 28th March, sentenced 12 members of the Armagh Assassination Society, convicted of conspiracy to murder, to terms of penal servitude ranging from five to ten years. The Archbishop of Tuatn, replying to Earl Spencer on March 19th, on behalf of the Catholic Bishops of Ireland, writes that the action of the Government in insisting on extending relief to the distressed people through workhouses is an outrage on humanity, and a covert system of exterminating the human race. The Langtrys are once again before the general public by the fact that Miss Agnes Langtrey, sister to the Lily’s husband, and sent from England to chaperone her through the United States when Mrs Labouchere gave up the task, eloped on March 31st with a young man named Stone, and was married at the Church of AH Saints at Drummondville, Canada, The happy couple are now living in Toronto. The “ Lily,” once more desolate, is very angry with her sister, and shocked at what she calls her want of propriety, but the fact is that Agnes was sensible in not passing the opportunity to get a good husband.