CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, 4 June 1891, Page 2

CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

London. The Imperial Government has assured the Newfoundland Government that they will establish Courts [to administer treaties, and will I abstain from piecemeal legislation. Mr William Lidderdale, Governor of the Bank of England, has been appointed a member of tbe Privy Council. Sir George Stephen, formerly Chairman of the Canadian Pacific Railway, has been created the first colonial peer. Mr Justin McCarthy has decided not to agitate for the release of Messrs Dillon and O'Brien. The Jewish doctors in the Russian army have been informed that they must either adopt the orthodox faith or resign their positions, and it has been decided not to permit any further admissions of Jews to the army. The Portuguese authorities at Massi Kesse have ordered all Europeans except Portugese to quit, the country. The export trade to the Australian Colonies is brisker than it has been for years, and the dock sheds are choked with goods. The aggregate tonnage in London waiting for cargoes is 80,000. The House of Commons has reported the Irish Land Purchase Bill with thirteen pages of amendments. The Queen has sent a message to Lord Stanley of Preston, Governor of Canada, requesting him to pay a visit to Sir John MaDonald on behalf of Her Majesty. Two of the Munipur officers have been sentenced to death for complicity in the murder of Messrs Quinton, Grimwood, and others. The marriage of Mr C. S. Parnell and Mrs O'Shea will be celebrated next week. The Paris bondholders in the Panama Canal have resolved to urge the French Government to use its influence and assist in completing the work. There is much sickness among the troops in Munipur. Forty deaths have occurred in the detachment of the 60th Rifles, numbering only 200. The trial of the Baccarat case began on Ist June. The Court was crowded with members of the aristocracy, among whom was the Prince of Wales. Sir W. Gordon Cumming was examined. He denied the allegation that he was cheating, but admitted having signed a document undertaking not to touch cards for the rest of his life which, he explained, was done in order to prevent scandal. In cross-examination to-day, Sir W. Gordon Cumming admitted having won £225 from the Prince of Wales. He had never sought to confront his accusers because liis friends had tailed to suggest that it was advisable. The second night (9th September) they were playing, the Prince of Wales, he remembered expressed a wish that the players would exhibit their stakes clearly. Witness now believed that tha advice given him to sign a declaration of guilt was extremely bad. The Prince of Wales and two of his friends, Lord Coventry and General Owen Williams, had written to him jointly that in the face of the overwhelming evidence, it was useless for him to deny his guilt. The plaintiff proposes to call the Prince of Wales as a witness.