NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3139, 26 February 1889, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

' London, 28rd FebruwM-^fel Lord Onslow ¥t for New/|pSnd V; via Australia to day. Bell, .Viscount Bherbrooke, mm Ritchie, and several others, present to:bid himiarewell. > - y u "Early preparations,will bo made the-Admiralty to 7 mobilise fchSf^rmy..' MrF, S, aunt,'member for Maty- t lebone ■•gavesnotice.vint, ths . : House of Commons of bis intention of introducing a Bill' to legalise in vJfej Ungland marnage;. with a.v deceased * wife's sister legaSy. oontraoted in tlie Colonies. ' vX A commercial treaty has been concluded between England and,. Servia;;:--; 24th February. , The Daily Telegraph, in referring S to Pigott's evidence before mission said he, and his evidence was both degiadmg " - and disgusting.:- The sequel to-it, it, > says, is obvious. j /S | A great sensation was the House of Commons and: generally by the turn afiaira hw ( \ taken, " The Parnellites are jubilant, and consider the collapse of the Times v case is assured. '' Sir 0. Russell compelled write several words. in" Court: ocour*-, ing in the letters, including " tancy" and "hkehhoodt" Pigott spelt both m tlio same way that they appealed m the letteis, ( Mr Balfour was received in the House of. Commons by the;. membas with hisses and ones of <■ "Pigo'tt" Painell was absent. " .Mr C'arew is imitating the action < of O'Brien by: refusing; to wear. the; i prison garb, and opposing the - prison.-v > regulations. 1 : The Times is applying to litothe:; * action brought by Parnell • in Ireland, dismissed,-pelffg;the > lesult of the Scotch action. Berlin, Februaiy 24, ■ The German authonties are muoh v

incensed at the action of the Czar •••• Mid Czarina. in attending .the recep-;<. •; tion giveii-by Sir Robert Morier, British Ambassador at StPetersburg. v v ;.. The:press alkge.that the visitf was; - made with the intention of-raiting;:: Bismarck. Paiis, February 28. M, Goblet, explains that the bom- • bardment of Sagallo, oil the Bed Sea littoral, by the IVonoli Admiral« 'was ordered blcauso the " Free - Cossack " Aohinoff hoisted the Russian flag,;and refused to depart from ■* that country when requested ■. by ■ the ■ French authorities, M. Goblet adds that the Russian Government will" not support the .notion of Achinoff. •Russia has accepted the French vdetermination to send M. AohinofFs' expedition.back to Suez. ' Zanzibar, February 28. :Tlie Secretary to Tippo Tib ■ ex-; - presses a belief that Stanley and Eminßey intend to capta%Kbar</ toum and endeavor to expel; the Madhi from the Soudan. - - Ottawa, February 24. The Dominion House of Commons rejected by a majority of forty, a resolution aimed at the prohibition of the production or sale of liquors in the Dominion.