CABLE NEWS.

Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 1039, 25 May 1883, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

HOME AND FOREIGN. (SPECIAL TO PRESS ASSOCIATION.) ; vfr nu ; i;; LONI)ON, ,May 20-: A The He Brazza expedition bas been re-inforced. The Porte has appointed a Commission to inaugurate reforms throughout fhe Empire. In consequence of evidence recently obtained in:connection; with the inquiry into other crimes, the Irish police have arrested seven men on a charge of having been concerned in the murder of Mrs Henry J. Smytbe, who was shot dead near Barbavilla House, County Westmeath, on 2nd April, 1882, while driving home from churchJn a carriage,, in s company 'with Mr 'Bariow Smythe! her brother-in-law, and Lady Henrietta Monck. The actual murderers were at the time reported to be three men, and they fired point blank at the carriage. It was believed the death of Mr Barlow Smythe was aimed at. Several arrests were m|de|a\|tlfeii 'time| but hp cpncihl sive obtainable! 2 k 5 -* I Sir W. Chambers, the publisher, of Edinburgh, who received a baronetcy only .a few days back, is dead,. Information is to hand froth the' Cape that Cetewayo has.suffered another defeat at the hands of the Zulu chief Oham. The oapital sentcnce passed oh Pat rick Delaney, who confessed to complicity in the Phoenix Park murders, has been commuted to penal servitude for life. Jefferson Davis is seriously ill, and his condition is considered very critical. Mr Bi ad laugh is organising a monster meeting to be" Held in Trafalgar-Square; on August Gth. . V Captain Moresby, in a letter to the Times supports the claims of Queensland in the annexation of New 'Guinea.