NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3109, 21 January 1889, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

' ' 1 London, January 18, „t| M At tliedimes-PaMoll DelaneyJ the''convict, was cioss-' examined by bir GI11& Eussell, His evidenco given in the examination in chief as to Michael Daytt anil J. c , 'BiggaL being picsent at meetings of the Land League and Fenians ■ was ' : not shaken. He swoie that the Latii and National Leagued, the Fonmu organisation, and the Invinoibles too affiliated. He was not awaio of the existence of tlie 'i'imes-l ) ai , nell- 4P'' Commission until lio was sulnmoned ■: ■ ■ as a witness. His igo was tlm ty-fivo, and lie admitted having' served five • years for robbory before receiving his piesent sentence, and that his 1 brother had been hanged- * • 1, At Warrington, itc Lancashire, the :>■ Maou football team" defeated the local club by two goals and a try to a- '' tiy.

| : Lettersreceived from Stanley,dated: • August, conhrm the news received 111; December of. the capture of. Emm Bey. 1 The Rev. 0. H. Spurgeon, who was -. • severely injured recently by falling down Btaiis, is recojeiing. It is reported; that tbo Marquis of*-' ■ ■ Hartington has : purchased the Man-. : Chester Examiner and Times, and ■ ' ■ that the paper will be used as the" mouthpiece of the Union party. In.the.wrcck of the stealer Priam last weolt, Mr Sydney Holder,' of, • Adelaide, was drowned. .1 Paris, January lb. The ■ - French Government aro increasing the navy by tho addition . of four ironclads. V s .: : -

-Some, January 18. Mr Gladstono, who is spending the winter in Italy, has .requested audiences with His Holiness tlio'Pope and King Humbert. ' ; -v.; Antwerp, January 18. • Oil ( Tuesday, last -.tWo.. aeronauts ascended . in. a- balloon with the intention: of making a passage to England. Since then .nothing has been heard of them, and it is feared that the balloon lias fallen into, the. ' water,,and that",the .aeronauts were . drowned., , ; V