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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1372, 7 May 1883, Page 2

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-': (UNlTED'.^^^^^^^^^| cities 1 of the \ successfully .repulsed- by- theEgyptiah troops, which were' compelled to retire to Khartown andobtain. fresh supplies, aif 1. are now making'• active preparations for the renewal of the contest with Mahadi.,,. .■' It is rumored that Porster will succeed the Marqnis.ofLorne as Governor General of Canada. ' .',-.■'. NEW'YOEE. ' ■ The Irish National Convention held its first sitting yesterday. _ Looney was elected President, and in the course of, his opening address upheld the action which the Irish had taken all through the agitation, and refrained from saying a word which might be considered a condemnation of the dynamite outrage. The excitement attending upon the proceedings of the Convention has led the United States Government to take action in the matter.

A Cabinet meeting was held yesterday at Washington to consider the subject, and a discussion took place as to the best means of suppressing Fenian head centres and preventing leaders of tho party from stimulating their agents to further dynamite outrages.

Representatives from the Canadian local companies have waited upon the Dominion Government and proposed that Parliament shall vote a sum of one million dollars for immigration purposes, and to enable 10,000 families to settle on land. Earl Dufferin has found it necessary to draw the attention of the Turk ish authorities to the disgraceful manner in which Armenia is being governed at the present time. Prince Batthany, a well-known sportsman and owner of racehorses, died suddenly to-day at the Newmarket race course.

It is reported that Sir John Macdonald, Premier of Canada, has heen accused of having committed perjury. It is considered probable that the Orient Steam Navigation Company will not declare a dividend for the past half-year, It has been ascertained that Grey, the clerk of the Telegraph Department, who asserted that he had been kidnapped by the .Fenians, and kept in confinement for several days, is suffering from mental, aberration, the result of injuries which he received in his head about Easter last,

The Czar has definitely resolved to abandon the idea of his coronation. Considerable excitement exists in London over the proposed duplication of the Suez Canal, the necessity for which was recently urged by a deputation of merchants who waited upon Earl Granville.

A secret meeting of tho promoters of the dynamite policy has been held at New York, O'Donovan Rossa, who was present, announced that he still had an unshaken belief in the value of dynamite as an agent for obtaining their demands, and that he was prepared to continue it until those demands have been conceded. The German Government has entered a protest against the manner in which the Porte is carrying on the administration of Armenia,and strongly advises the Sultan to introduce a number'of necessary reforms.

Affairs at Pdrt Said are in a highly unsettled state, and the British troops are constantly kept on patrol. A number of Arabs recently attempted to destroy the Greek Church, and a serious conflict followed, in the course of- which several Greeks wero killed. The British troops eventually came on the scene and put an end to the disturbance.

There is a report that a crisis in Egypt is imminent, the Khedive having refused to accept the- reforms proposed by Earl Dufferin.