Condensed Cablegrams.

Manawatu Herald, Volume VII, Issue 245, 8 March 1889, Page 2

Condensed Cablegrams.

LONDON. On Thursday Pigott wired to Mr Soames, one of The Times' solicitors, asking him to forward what ho had promised, and this was understood .to m«an money. Mr Soames at once informed the police of Pigott's whereabouts. It is Mierted that Pigott, under

the name of Boland Ponsonby, had been arrestedin an hotel in the city of Madrid, whereupon he asked leave to enter his bedroom to fetch his hat nud, taking a revolver from a bag which he had with him, shot himself dead, the bullet entering his mouth, and death being almost instantaneous. : In the course of an interview today Mr Parnell sated that the expenses in defending the charges brought by The Tinvs against him had amounted tn £50,000. Before the Time3-Parnell Commission to-day, Messrs Lewis, Labouohere, Campbell, McCarthy, and Sala gave evidence in support of the confession made by Pigott. Sir B. E. Webster then proceeded with the general charges, and submitted evidence in support of his allegation that Patrick Ford, editor of the Irishman, had remitted large sums of money to the Land League for the purpose of promoting outrages. Hemp is quoted at £38 to £40. Mr E. Gent-Davies. M.P. for Kensington, who was recently commit ted to prison by a Judge for contempt of trust, has eloped with a lady, leaving his wife behind him. He n v t)rev i° us ty applied for the Chiltem HunaV: ds - „ h Q A rumour comes fron» ""»^° l^<» U seaport of Kiel to the effect tnau conflict has taken place at Samoa An American warship is supposed to have first fired a blank cartridge, the Qerman ship Olga replying with ball. Neither the American nor the German Legation in London is able to confirm the rumour.