NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3094, 3 January 1889, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

London, December SO. . .Twenty-fivo men ofthe .• Berkshire Regiment paraded the streets of Kilrush, in County Clare, Ireland, singing "(*od Save Ireland,"-The police dispersed the mob who were cheering them, but the soldiery defied tliejr efforts to arrest them, December 81. > The ofßoial inquiry into the ciroum stances attending the issue of defective swords to the British troops,, as disclosed by the battle of Suakin, lias disclosed the fact that the weapons in question were manufactured iu Germany,

- The London Standard states that' an Australian shipping firm of soino standing has beoome involved iu ai difficulty. Its liabilities are estimated at "£120,000. •News lias been received of a revo | liition. in the Native Kingdom of i Uganda, on the north-west shore -of i Lake Victoria Nyanza, the King having been' disposed by his brother." It is believed this will afford Kmin Bey an opportunity of escaping, as the new monarch is known to be friendly, to bini. " ;''

'lt has transpired that fully onethird of the British cavalry are without borees. • "David Clarkson, a merchant ot Christchurch, has called ameeting of bis oreditora for Wednesday! The estate Bhows a surplus subject to the valuation being realised.

January !. , It is believed that David Glarksonjs liabilities are under £IOO,OOO, and that he may possibly be able to pay 20s in the pound,

■ January 1. It is rumoured thatEmin Bey has reached Lake Victoria. Nyanza, (lie deposition of Mwanga Kingof Ugunda, having opened a lino of' retreat. Emin Bey is supposed to' be awaiting the arrival of Stanley on the shores of the Lake, . .

The Bank of New Zealand has appointed Meßsra (Jlyn, Mills and Co. its London agents. A Soudanese refugee has offered to restore Gordon's clothes and papers, which were concealed at Berber, where the local tribes are friendly. ' E. Harrington has been sentenced to six months' imprisonment for reporting proceedings at meetings of the National League. | Canon Baylies has been sentenced to four months' impeisonment. for passing a fraudulent cheque. Mr John Bright's health is still improving,-

The Board of Trade oppose the Channel Tunnel scheme. Vienna, December 81. Austria intends to place twelve | monitors on the Danube. Smkisi, December 30.

Several Arab sheikhs have offered to allow the Boudan to be opened up to trade peaceable if the Dervishes and Osman Uigna are expelled. January 1. A Greek, who left Khartoum two months ago, states that nothing liad then been. heard of the alleged capture of Emin Bey by the Mahdi's forces. •

A Greek who has reached this town from the Upper Nile reports that when he left Khartoum the Mahdi intended to abandon the attempt to conquer the Equatorial provinces of Africa, ■/ .

' Handoub has been reconnoitred, but none of tbo enemy were visible, and it is believed the Dervisher3 have retreated. • • Rome, December 81. Mr Gladstone, who is now on a visit to Italy, has written a letter to a,r Italian nobleman, in which he expresses an opinion that the present attitude of the Kuropean Powers is of sufficient importance to warrant a grand appeal to the arbitration ofj nations for the purpose of averting-a! sanguinary European war. King Humbert invited Mr Gladstone to mtriess a review, of the cavalry, and the latler'was-highly, pleased, at. the dashing display mado by the Italian horsemen; .'•'Bbbmk, December 81. • In deference to the wjshes of the Kmperor the Berlin Racing (Hubs have decided not to bold their meetings on Sundays. >MAMAB r Deo. 81. Lord and Lady Connemara, according to. current reports, have separated, and' lier ladyship is now staying at an hotel here preparatory to returning to Dnglatid. Her husband is generally blamod as being the cause of the esclandre.

A club houße in this city has been dynamited. Thursday Island, Deo. 81.

News' has been received here that Mr W. McGregor, Special ('omraiesioner of New Guinea, has captured «np of the natives concerned in the murder of Captain Artisbell, of the sohooner %r of Peace, who was killed- in November at Bnller Bay. A desperate resistance was offered by the friends of the captured men.. ■ New Yobk, Dec. 80. - In his match with MoAuliffe, Peter Jackson, the Australian champion, fonglit 24 lmrd round?. He is to be pitted against Jako Kilrain for the championship of the world.'.. -/ December 81. Tho -Edßton Commercial Bulletin estimates the American wool supply of tliis year ait CO.OOO.OOOIbs, as compared with llb.dpOiQOQlhs of Jpst jWc ■

. Pm,Jf»wry 1. ,T|i6 eleotlon for-the defartipit .of the Seine.lias, been fixed for tjie 27tli ;inst#iit, Boulanger is. confident that • ~ '' - ►•turned by an enirmoue he will db.. • ;.. majority.'- ■ It is reported that the struggling of prance.are generally ina distressed condition, and (liat some have stated thaVtljoywouldgladly exchange their iloU'itl) (li'st-olf}ss convicts in . New Caledonia. 1 Rosjj;, January 1. . ■The Pope, in an, encyiipal • letter jußt published, saya tjie only oure {or the evils prevalent m society is a return of the nations into tho fold of the church. His Holiness'also, in the course of the letter, utters a solemn warning to'certain nations, who, he eays, will liave to pay ;the penalty for their : , Mandalay, January 1. The prisoners in one of the gaols mutinied. the disturbance was quelled by the guard, but not before seven mutineers liad been killed, LonM, January!. . Tlio WQijpß Df .Britain for theyearisni(i4y r ®)|?.'?? PPP !p? dred w4 eeventy-tJireo MQiiSjJßd popndg. . • A tlieatfg has been destroyed by fire $ liirlpldy, fifty but qo fatalities are reported. ..' 'v. January.!.': • . Sir P. W. GrenfyH'has entered Handoub. He has. published a. proclamation announcing-the {defeat of Osman Digoa, and.ttianyof the tribes have absqedv i' GeueraLof their