Condensed Cablegrams.

Manawatu Herald, Volume VII, Issue 260, 16 April 1889, Page 2

Condensed Cablegrams.

LONDON. Sir Charles Dilke deolioed the requisition ia respect to contesing the Battersea seat and all other seats at present, as bis time was fully occupied in preparing for press a great work on the British j-.'mpire. In the course of his remarks in the opening speech for the defence bef re the Times-Pat neli » ommisaion, Sir Charles Russell, Q ('.. accused Major Lecaron (Thomas Philip Beach) of spending his life in an atmosphere of conspiracy, but that, notwithstand ing this, he had been unable to give frarnini.s to Government of any pro jected dynamite enterprise Sir Charles said that Mr Parnell wou'd deny that he ev«r told Major Le (Jaron that, physical force was the only means left for the redress of the wongs of Ireland. Sir Charles dwelt on the utter failure of Major Le Caron to prove any alliance between the Parnellitee and the real authors of crime in Ire and. The sole fact adduced by the other side which in any way connected the central office of the League with complicity in crime was that of the cheques signed by Kenny, which were applied to the assistance of the Castle Island moonlighters, but it would be shown that the money was voted at a time when the League was quite disorganised It has been >n ranged that the United States warship Alert, the German warship Sophie, and H M.S Calliope eh-xll «lone represent the Powers at Samoi until the Berlin Conference is over. FOREIGN The German warship < lga, which was run ashore during the recent gale in Apia harbour, was succesf ullv floated off, and came on to Sydney on the morning of the 12th. The steamer Lubeck also arrived from Samoa with a large number of shipwrecked sailors belonging to tho German warships Eber and Alder. News from Apia says that it is understood that the German troops are to | be withdrawn from Samoa, with tho cxc ption ot about 60 men, who re- : main to protect German propert-- | and interests. The v an Francises mail steamer Alameda caller l at Api.i on her trip to San Francisco, ami took on 40 of the American sailors

who were either suffering from tft* juries sustained during the wreck or island feve/s. Large numbers of bodies' have been washed ashore and buried. The 1 iofaJ number of lives lost is given as 143. Cfi v eat damage has been caused throughout th* group, and it is estimated that if' will take fully two years to recover from the effects of the hurricane. The natives especially severely feel the loss of food. The charges against Boulanger are being' beard with closed doors.