CABLEGRAMS.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 284, 25 July 1888, Page 6

CABLEGRAMS.

London, July 16. i Tiik Bill providing for the appointment of a Commission to inquire into the "Times" charges against Parnell was read a first , time in tho House of Commons to-day. Mr Parnell angrily refused to say whether . he would accept or reject the appointment of a Commission until the Bill had been , circulated among the members of the i House. Continuing, he said no Govern - , mont ought to nominate a tribunal and i then fix the terms with reference to it. Be accused the (government of being an ac- , complice ot the " Times," and compared , them to butchers, the Parnellilca being the i sheep for slaughter The Papal letter was read in the Irish churches yesterday. It declares 'hat the plan of campaign is altogether an unlawful method of action, and is therefore vfor- ' bidden. The rescript rebukes the opnosi tion to the former decision of His Holiness 1 the LV) ne.

' London, July 19. Jn £i v i»£ evidence to clay before a select committee of the House of Lords, which is , inquiring into the allowed " swpfiting 1 ' system being piacti&ed m the city, a witness declined that a thousand chi'dn-.n were murdered annually for the sake u\ the . insurances cHec ed on their lives. Messrs Labouchere and Mclvenn.i liavc ', ui\en notice to move for the ie]e^tion of the L'arnell Commission Bill.

London, July 20 The tercentenary of the deteat of (,ii c Spanish Armada was celebrated ai !'!y mouth, but the ilect di.i not participate owinpj to tlio commencement of tlic miintvuvveh.

Berlin. Jr'y IS. The Gemvin press sfill continue- to make \ Gnomons all nek 1 - on the Dowajjcr Empie-.: Victoria, and the general opinion is ohcy arc made A\ith the object of diiving hci out of (jiermany. The Dowager Empress Victoria has requested Sir Morell Mackenzie to prepare a true account of the illness of the !ai,e Emperor Frederick. The meeting between the Emperot W'iiliam and the Czar Cook place at Croi^t.idt on Thuisday. The Emperor will io."n bark on Sunday, after reviewing the ( i r 1 man and Russian squadrons. Thegencia' impicssion is that the visit of the Empcioi to the C/ar will strengthen the person il, if not political, relations between German y and Riii-hia. The Empeior \Villiam, in il turninu 1 horn his visit to the C/at, will visit Kinej Chii&tian of Penmaik and King O&cai of Sweden and Noiway.

St. IYtersihjri., July 19. The C/ar has issued a ukase piovidin*; for the inoiease of the Kus-ian army b\ d million and a half men.

Akw York, July 18 An fiiicVi chibf plot to dynamite prominent ollieuds connected with the teoeut exc'Mitioii ot anaichifetsha'-becn discovered in Chicago. It was al>o intended lo dcinoli.^h a irimber of public biiildingh. Twenty con.-pimtoi-ft aie imolvcd, and aue^tb ha\e been m.ide.

Sydnm, July 20. A sciious Hie bioke out in the Chinese quarter at Walciloo, tins evening, destroying thirty buildinof. One Chinaman was so\etoly burnt, and lie* in a. critical condition. * EARTHQUAKES IN {SCOTLAND.

LoxnoN, July 20. A sinait shock of eaithquake was felt in many paits of Scotland last night. Cishop Cowie, of Auckland, is publishing a book giving his experiences of mission work in New Zealand IVlemheis ot the Parnellite paity in the House of Commons tin eaten to obstiud the 13ill piovidmg for the appointment ot a commission to iuquiie into the "Times" ehaiges Huain&t Mr Parnell. The naval mamouvro*) were attended with bevL'ial mishapb and fatalities. Tiio equipment is loportod defective, and it is stated that the ironclads behaved badly.

Lo.n'don, July 2J. Mr Koaue, a West Australian, has m ranged for a financial firm in Germany to undertake the construction of the Guilford and Champion Railway, in Western Australia. It is intended to settle German imnugiants along the line. i

London, July 21. f ii the House of Commons, <m the motion of Lord Randolph Churchill, Mr Conybearo, M.P. for Camborne, was suspended on the grounds of having published in the "Star," a Radical evening paper, a letter gro&sly libelling the Speaker because the eloture had been applied. Mi Gladstone supported the motion, but the lush party opposed it. Many public buildings at Port An Prince have been destroyed by fire. Tenders tor the Otago Dock Tmst Loan of /7.i,000 at 5 per cent., with a minimum of 9-1, will be opened on Wednesday. It is uhought that if the Commission Bill be passed in its present shape, the inquiry might last for seveial years. Those acting with Mr Labouchere contend that the duties of the Commission ought r,o be completed in a reasonable peuod. A petroleum steamer caught fire oft' Baku on the Caspian. The oil exploded, and t,he vessel was completely wrecked. The crew took to the boats, but six were killed and many injured by flying fragments before they got out of reach. ■ The "Statist," in an article on colonial finance, says the colonies are borrowing too freel}', and depiecates the eagerness of investors to tender, especially in the case of New Zealand loans. At the annual meetiug of the Cobden Club, Sir James Picton, in the course of a speech, said the tendency to think that free-trade had been carried too far was increasing, and that there was need of a corrective against cheap importations. He suggested that the difficulty might be counteracted by the introduction of the co operative sj'stem of sharing profits. At the same meeting, a paper was road predicting tho speedy triumph of fair trade.