NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3138, 25 February 1889, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

, < London, February 22nd, Parhameat was formally opened to-day;; In the House of.Commons | the Bight Hon. John Morley gave notice of an amendment to the Addresa-in-Eeply -to the effect that the harsh,:. oppressive,' and unjqst government of Ireland was .viewed with aversion by the people of Great Britain,: and that- tins House - urges thai conciliatory measures should: bo adopted by- the Qovernni ent -• -in that country. :V- '■: VJiS . : Mr Gladstone, m the course of his adverted to the danger of largely increasing the army and navy; The debate was adjourned, . In the House of Lords, the Address in-Beplyto- the speech from the Throne was adopted, ; Lord Salisbury, referring to Samoan affairs, said tko proposed Samoan Conference, xlo. be held at Berlin, would be a renewal of the .Washington Conference. The effort.to sustain the native- government in that country, by the tripartite advicei of co-equalfpowevs had been a: failure. Kefemng to Irish affairs; the Premier saidv peace and order .were' steadily returning, and that agrarian outrages and boycotting had greatly decreased. i i Invcross-examination before the |.Times-Parnell, Commission, Pigott admitted that the statements, he had made m his- letter, to 1 Archbishop Walsh were enhrely unfounded,- and i that'-he had told Houston , that the Parnell letters were possibly forgeries';. He stated, further that he had written to Mr Poster, the Irish Secretary, in 1881, asking for LISOO for, services rendered to the .Government,, and admitted writing, to Egan at the same time asking for LSOO to stop the publication of a pamphlet damaging to the.League, : V ;

. Pakis, February 22. ; M, Meline, having finally failed to form a Ministry, M. Tirard, who was Premier in 1887, consented to undertake the task, : and has succeeded in forming a Cabinet as followsM. Tirard, Premier and Minister of Commerce; M. de Freycinet, Minister of War, Customs and Interior; M. Coiiroel, Minister of Foreign Affairs; M, Rouvier, Minister of Finance, and M. Jamais, Minister of Marine. The new' Ministry is of anti-Boulangist tendencies. M. Tirard aims at rallying the Opportunist and Extreme Eadicals.

Aden, February 22,

"It is- reported that the French Admiral has bombarded Sagallo, a French possession on the Bed Sea, where the" Free Cossack" Aohinoff hoisted his flag. Five Cossaoks wei'e killed, and the rest deported to Obok