NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 3067, 29 November 1888, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

London, November 26,

The New Zealand Football team was defeated by the'Swistori team today by two tries to nil. , ,27th November. ,

The second battalion of the East Yorkshire regiment has been ordered to proceed to Suakim.

: The Government have decided- to adopt the. smokeless powder for - use in small arm cartridges. It is . estimated that the expenses of each party beforetheTimes-Parnell Commission will reach £IOO,OOO. The Parnell Defence fund has now reached £20,000, Mr.David Sheeby, M P, for Galway South,'. whom the Government intend prosecuting on a charge of intimidation, complained . in the House of Commons to-day that a constable: had served him a summons, withiu the precincts of tlio House. The Opposition* Parnellites, and some of the members of the ■ Conservative party expressed their indignation at the action of the 'police authorities. Mr W. H. Smith explained that tho Government were .ignorant of the affair, and he moved the appointment .of a committee to inquire into the circumstances forthwith, : which was agreed to. < ■ .!

Algibrs, November 26,

A number of Italian workmen who had recently been discharged, created a disturbance at Ijochifru to-day. The riot became so serious that the French troops, who were called outj fired on tho mob, killing , four and wounding many. A large number of arrests weremado. .

Kome', November 27

Tho Monitor asserts that the Pope will probably, solve the difficulty between tho civil and ecclesiastical authorities by leaving Rome.