CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2931, 22 June 1888, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

London, June 19, A Royal Commission has beon appointed to inquire into the working of the metropolitan Board of Works. Thy evidence so far shows that two ojlicials received 110,000 as bribes. Washington, June 19. Tho Republican Convention at Chicago is likoly to nominate Mr. J. (i. Maine for the Presidency, Tho Convention strongly endorses a Protective policy, Sydney, .Juijo 20, Captain Ross of the ship Berbice, which went ashore at Newcastle during a heavy gale on the sth inst., has lnitl his cortiiioato suspended by the Board of Iwjuiry for 12 months, ' MuLiiouiiNK, June 21. The debate on the Address-in.Reply is now proceeding in the House where strong exception is taken to the action of tho Government in oxcluding the Chinese from the Colony. All claims for damage by the Windsor Railway accident have beon settled at the cost to the colony of £125,000. London, June 19,

The clergy in the diocese of Raphoe, County Donegal, have carried resolutions of sympathy with tljc imprisoned priests, ai|d have started a relief fund, /!)Anzi!imi, Juno 10. Unconfirmed reports have reached here that 11. M. Stanley is dead, Sydney, June 20,

During the discussion on the address of condolence to the Dowager Empress, Mr Buchanan, whilst admitting the late Emperof Frederick's nobleness of character privately, said he w.is a despot and allied with despots and asked whether the House was going to aflirm that a despot's death was an irreparable loss to tho cause of freedom and lpiman progress, He moved the omission of that'portion of the address. The amendment, which created a great sensation, was seconded by Mr Garland, but was lost on a division (iO to 3.