NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3102, 12 January 1889, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

London, January 10, A fund is being organised hero for the relief of the Chinese who We suffering from, famine in consequence of the recent floods in China caused by the overflowing of tho Yang-Tee-Kiang and Yellow Bivers, At the public deception tendered bim by the'people of Birmingham, Mr Chamberlain; replying to the toast of "Parliament," said he would not accept a title if offered one. A twofold Parliamentary reform ; was necessary in order to ensure ".tlw better despatch of business—namely, the relegation of much of the work to a Grand Committee and. the personal punishinehf-'df 'members guilty oil disorderly conduct), :; ';'. ■ \ '.-.

' Lord'fflnjlwjey, speaking at Wym.qiridpatp. Norfolk, 'salt! tjje colonies were evidently "an'?idils to' sep# & Governors peers of, tbe'realm, and this, wish he thought should be gratified. ■ -The Hight Hon'. E, Stanhope, speaking - at ■ Sevenpaks, t Kent, .said! 'the j agricultural ' dutlobk' had- vastly' im-

proved.; .Ton/per cent more liind;waß nowMnderwheattKaii'formerly,.'' : ".? Mr; : William ;'b'.Bi;ien, addresaiiig the National;; League : Convention; at Kjldaro, Haid, the absence of crime in Ireland; Was. defeating the coercive policjr bf Mr Balfour, r ; -K.."':,

- Mr E, Harrington, .who was sentenced to six months';imprisonment for, reporting; the; proceedings .at■.a meeting of the .National League,' re. : fused to'siibmit to the prison reguUV tions, and has bad his moiißtaobe shaved ;off'by., force, after a. violent 'resistance.'■•' . ■'■"••:.■ -'.'■'• . : ' :

■ Mr J. B, Cox, member .lor East Clare, and Mr D. Kilbridge,: member for South Kerry, have been summoned on a charEje of inciting. '"Mr T. J;"Condon, member for East Tipperary and .Mayor of, Clonmel, being cited on a'charge.of conspiracy, marched to Court in his official robes, and took his seat on tlio Bench in the capacity of Mayor. Thousands ol people lined the streets, and afterwards crowded into the Court. In consequencei of :the disorderly behaviour of the mob, the Court was cleared and the proooedings adjourned for a week. The Pope has sent a golden medal to Cardinal Manning. ';■ The friction between England arid Portugal respecting the claim of the latter to NyußSoland is becoming acute. The' Standard says Lord Salisbury must vigorously resent Portugals claims to control the mouths of the Zambesi. ,: -.'. Washington, January.9. I A man named Schaffer has been arrested on a charge of murdering three men living in a small village in Washington territory. The accused, who'was on bad terms with the victims, blew up.the house in which they lived with dynamite. .' ,' Kome, January 10. Mount Vesuvius is threatening an eruption,

■; A cyclone has devastated Beading in Pennsylvania, 50 people being killed. It 'struck and destroyed a silknnll, in which 250 people were at work, and only part of them escaped.

Kilrain is shuffing over the terms of his fight with Sullivan,

Cabul, 9th January. While the Ameer was reviewing his troops on Boxing Day, a Heratese Pepoy attempted to assassinate bim by discharging a gun nt him. The shot missed, however, and the Sepoy was at once seized and executed.

Zanzibar, 9th January. A lector, believed to have been written by Mr Stanley, has arrived here addressed to the Xing ef the Belgians.