NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 3009, 21 September 1888, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

London, September 18. It is bolieved that the Parnellites will endeavor to prove that The l'imes employed private detectives, who made use of forged dooumeuts and suborned witnesses in connection with the charges made against them by that paper. A report is current to the effect that the Times will apply for a writ of kbm corpus to obtain the attendance of those Invincibles who are sorving lifo sentences for the Phoenix Park murders, to give evidence to connect the Land and National Leagues with the murders. A medical certificate has been published which states that Mr John Dillon is in a very serious condition, and that he may possibly live for a few weeks only, The Government have offered to release him on condition that_ he shall abstain from taking part in public agitations, To this proposal Mr Dillon has refused to agree, and it is now : stated that, owing to his critical state of health, he will be released unconditionally. Mr Dillon maintains a defiant attitude towards the Government.

Washington, September 19. Senator Sherman, in the course of a speech in moving the motion of which he gave notice a day or two. ago, said America ought to make overtures to. Canada for a political and commercial union with the United States.

It is now thought probable that the Senate mil reject the Retaliation Bill,

Ottawa, September 19, A Russiau man-of-war seized a Canadian sealing vessel in Behring'a Straits, and fired several shots, at another.

The Province of Quebec threatens to secede from the Dominion of Canada, and join the United States, if the Federal Government insists on its veto of the Magistrate's Bill, London, September 19. The Standard, writing on the crisis in Canada, urges that England and Canada should forcibly retain the Province of Quebec in case it attemps to carry out its threat of secession.