NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3144, 4 March 1889, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

London, March !.■»

Mr T, M. Healey has given notice of motion in the House of Commons to th 6' effect that Sir. R.- Webster, Attorney-General, lifia forfoited the confidence of this house. • ■ ■Lord Carnarvon, in an article: in tho Fortnightly Eoview, urges that a General of the highest standing should visit Australia for the purposo of welding the military bodies' into one compact force. - Sir Julian Paunceforte has proceeded to Washington to assume control of the British Embassy to the United States. In the house of commons last night, Mr Chamberlain vigorously. - opposed Mr. Morley's amendment to "the Adtoa-in-Reply, and challenged Mr Gladstone to produce his alleged policy of conciliation. It is expected the Government will' have a;majority of 70.

-, ' Paris, March 1. : The action of the Government in ordering the bombardment of Sago.Ho is censored. " ' -Bomb, March 1. Signor brispi resigned in order to avoid defeat on his taxation proposals. . St. Petersburg, March 1, Alarmists views in this city are subsiding since it has been proved that England does not connive at the operations of the- Ameer in Afghan Turkestan. v " Oairo, March 1. A deserter who has arrived at Wady Haifa, states that Emin Boy was victorious. in an action on the Bahr-el-Ghazel. The Dervishes suffered heavy losses. The Death of Pigott London, March 2. ; It is now asserted that Pigott, under the namo of Eoland Ponsonby, had been arrested in an hotel in the city of Madrid, whereupon he asked leave to enter his bedroom to fetch his hat, and, taking a revolver from a bag. which tie had with him, shot himself dead, the bullet entering his mouth, and death being almost instantaneous,'