CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

Manawatu Herald, 20 February 1896, Page 2

CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

London. c Mr H->alv urges Mr Sexton to accept the chairmanship of the Irish I Party, and promises to support him i or retire. . Sir E. Clarke, M.P., the eminent ] barrister, has b^en retained for the i dt f^oce of Dr Jameson. The trial of the political agitators , at Pretoria will be resumed in a ■ week. Imperial officers have been sent to ( Rhodesia to command the Chartered ( Company's police. : Dr Jameson received an ovation on his arrival at Malta. Mr Bayard. American Minister in Inodon. has informed the Marquis of Salisbury that the Venezuela C.immispion has been appointed for the purpose of collecting the facts, and not to arbitrate in the dispute. In the H nine of Commons, Mr G. N. « viz »n, Parliamentary Secretary for the Foreign Office, declared that the Powers would not r« quest Russia to occupy /■inxnia in uolation of Treaties if the sultan did not agree to the step. Four torpedo destroyers have been ordered to Malta. Mr Gladstone told a representative of Figaro that be personally desired clo-er relations with France, but he was unable to express an opinion as to the Foreign policy of Great Britain. Mr Sexton has finally declined to take the leadership of th 6 Irish Nationalist Party. In the House of Commons, Mr T. Harrington's amendment to the Address io Reply, that the Government should dhow clemency towards prisoners couvirted of dynamite out* rages in Ireland, was rejected by a majority of 162 votes. Her M»j 'Sty the Queen has published a letter thanking her subjects generally for their expressions of | sympathy in connection with Prince Henry of Battenberg'a death. She speak of him as a dearly-loved and helpful son who-e affection came as a bright sunbeam across her lif-, and says the spectacle of her daughter Beatrice's blighted happiness is I hard to bear.