LATE CABLES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1081, 23 May 1882, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

THE EGYPTIAN QUESTION.

THE.IRISH QUESTION.

A WLL TO ARMS

EXTRAORDINARY BARGAIN BETWEEN THE PREMIER AND PARNEI-L.

London, MaylC. In tho House of Commons last evening, Mr Gladstone introduced a Bill dealing with the arrears ot rent due by, Irish peasantry. The measuro provided that the tenants shall pay one year's rent.; that tho State shall give another; and that landlords shall forego the balance 'of arrears,, suoh a'sistaaceto be limited ti farms of £2l) rental (Griffiths' valuation) on tenants proving poverty, and the duration of the Act is to be three years.

: May 15. Oitcrif Pasha, who resigned his office as President of the Council of Ministers in Egypt on Feb, 2, eousequenj upon a disa. greement with the Chamber of Notables as to the latter exercising a control.over tho Budget, has been recalled, and has again accepted the Premiership. - ■ • The jßusso-Turkish War Indemnity Convention has been signed,

The cab omp'oyed by the assassins of Lord Frederick Cavendish aud Mr Burko has been traced, and proves tn.bo-an unlicensed vehicle.

Arabi Pasha, the Minister of War, has summoned the reserves of the Egyptian army in view of tho probability of hostilities. There is a general exodus of Europeans from Cario. It is announced that the Khedive is reconciled to his Ministry,

In tho event of the Turkish "gende arms" being landed, the command will be vested in the Anglo-French authorities.

A profound sensation has been created throughout the country by"tho exposure yesterday in the House of Commons of Parnoil's offer to the Government to stop the outrages and to support the Liberal party on condition that tho imprisoned, suspects should bo immediately released, and that a measure providing for the surrender of arrears of rent should he introduced hto Parliament by the Government.... Gladstone denied that such a bargain had been made, but the Hon. Mr Forster read letters which h«d passed between the alleged contracting parties, • .. Parnell's offer to stop outrages is held to be to make the Irish organisations with which he has been prominently connected largely responsible for the agrarian outrages which for so long a time havo been frequent in Ireland.

May 17. General KanrTmanu, a distinguished Russian commander, is dead. Sir Alexander Gait, K.0.M.G., High-Com.-missioner for the. Dominion of-Canada in London, has' resinned Ms appointment!

The directors of the Riwj Theatre and two subordinates hive Icon convicted at Vienna for criminal cataness in connection with the burning of that building, and have been sentenced, the former to four months' and the latter to-'eight months' imprisonment. The, other defendants implicated in the calamity wero'. acquired.

London, May 21. The Irish delectivo force has lately undergone a complete re-organisation. . Obifaary-Tho Duke of Grafton, aged 63.

BASTEBNNEWa.- ;; , : ARRIVAL OF THE COMBINED FLEET ' OFF,ALEXANDRIA. ENTRANCE TO THE SUEZ CANAL GUARDED. APPEAL OF THE" PORTE AGAINST ACTION OF ENGLAND AND '.. FRANCE. "' Cairo, May 20. The English and Frenoh squadrons have avrived off Alexandria, and the command of the united fleet has been assumed by the English Vice-Admiral. Sir Beaiichamp Seymour, of EM.S.Alexandra, The entrance to the Suez Canal has been placed under the guard of tho French gunboats attached to the squadron, Constantinople, May 20. v ; The Porte has sent an appeal to the Powers against the action of England and France in despatching their qquadronajwr Egypt. / \W* Calcutta, Mw2o- - system of elective Local. Boards has boen instituted throughout British India. Caiko, May 41.

The statement current here yefterday that the entrance to the Suez Canal was being guarded byPrench gun boats forming part of the United squadron is now proved to be incorrect, .. ' -

Vienna, Mav 21. Intelligence is to hand from Brody that great mortality is occurring among the children of the Jewish refugees encamped near that town, and who are in a starving condition. • AUSTRALIAN. Sidney, May 22, H.M.S. Nelson has sailed for Wellington. Arrived, yesterday af temoon-The Union Company's steamship Arawata. from Auckland Edward C'ribbon, a native of Auckland, was found dead in the Domain to-day, having committed suicide by shooting himself with a pietol. ' Melbourne, May 22. Per Merchant Shipping and Under-writere' Association:—London, May 20, Arrived— Ships Unicorn, from Oamaru (Dec. 17); Marion Neil, from Oamaiu (Jan. 20); Dunedin, from Port vhalmers (Feb. IS). New Yobk, May 20, Arrived—Ship Eyvor, from Auckland (Feb, 9|.