NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3136, 22 February 1889, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

"London, 19tli February.' ' Mr Houston, of Jhe Patriotic in; his evidence i before the- Commission, - stated .that iho employed Pigott, in 1885 and 11886 to collect materials for a pamphlet . entitled "-Parnellism Unmasltedi" - For writing this,_ Professor Maguire, of Dublin, 'received an advance £BOO, and £7OO-was paid to Pigott and others, In 1885 .witness applied to Mr Buokle, editor of-the 'limits, to buy the letters, without success. Next year he applied again and this time Mr Buckle consented. Houstanstated that he paid Pigott £SOO for the letters, and £I2BO . for expenses. He'made no-profit himself out of tbe sale. '-

- 20th February., H Lord Eoseberry in the course, of a speech'at,' Edinburgh, ; aa opinion that the realisation, of the soheme of Imperial Federation on the widest scale was not remote* ; : ! Sir Edward Clarke, Q. 0., SolicitorGeneral, speaking at Deal, said that Mr Gosohen,Chancellor of' .the Exohequer, Avas'in a position^, pay interest on a. defence loan of forty, million, without imposing: fresh -taxation.-

. The Birmingham 1 faotones are working day .and night to complete orders for quiok-firing shell ammunition." .. ■ ■

At the annual meeting of the Australian Agricultural and Coal Company it was stated; that' the company had lost £16,000 by theNewcastle strike. .

. .Paris, 19th February.-' M.' Tirardhas refused to attempt to form a Ministry. Two thousand five 'hundred laborers at the Panama Canal works ! have been discharged.. It is expected that M. do Freycinet will form a Cabinet and carry on business over, the Exhibition. ;

The weakness exhibited by. President Carnot during the present poli : tiofll crißis is exciting a good' deal oi comment, '

Si Petersbuiu, February 20. ; The object of General Komordffs visit to Toliartlgin is in connection with the progress of,the .Ameer towards the frontier. It is KomorofPs intention to'ocoupy all the important points in order to facilitate dealing a crushing blow on the Ameer if he attempts to move further northward. Tlie Czar and Czarina have been entertained by Sir Robert Morier, British Ambassador at this oity. .

It is rumoured that a new Russisn loan of three hundred million roubles will shortly be offered. Russia is spending five million roubles on the defences of Vladivostok,

January 21. 1 A famine caused by the severity of the winter, and the leanness of the crops is raging in Southern Eussia. Harrowing scenes occur daily in the country districts, and children are dying off wholesale. Berlin, February 19. The German Trade Congress has opened. Herr Boetheher states that the Melbourne Exhibition has opened a wider outlet for German manufactures.

>The recall of Mr Brandersfrom Samoa is confirmed.

Belgrade, February 21. The statement that tbo (King of Servia-'s coronation' ceremony will take place in May is denied. _ Hongkong, February 20. ' Sir William Des Yoeux, Govomor of Hongkong is strongly objecting to the clainiß of the Messagories Moritimes Company to have their steamers placed on the same status as warships on the ground that such a course is calculated to interfere with the ojoerations of the . law in the English harbours. '

Washington, February 20, Mr Bayard, Secretary of State, in the course of an interview, said that in the event of war between Germany and tho- United States, tho latter would haVe to find another Secretary,

Ottawa, February 10. The Canadian House of Commons has rejected by a majority of thirty a motion to the effect that iu future direot treaties should be negotiated with foreign Powers.