NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3151, 12 March 1889, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

London, 9th March. I Spencer, ■ speaking-.: at : tho i Eighty Club, : : said that Mr Parnell i bore his -unexampled; slanders: 1 with dignity : and patience, r: Ho.charged the Government with complicity. Lord Roseberry endorsed these views, and said Mr Parnell . was --grandly received in England,.:. The destiny of Ireland, lie thought, was lndissolubly entwined with that of England; - He refrained from making any - reference to the Commission. : The Maori Football :leam defeated Widnes (Lancashire) Club- yesterday, by two goals add a try to a try..- - •/ . Isaac Pitman, .'the original ;■ of Pitman's .system ofshorthmd writing, was banquetted on the occasion of tho celebration of * tho J übilre of shorthand. ,It is .-intended to strike a medal to onmmeinorate tlie event, v : I J.A.-Froude has been converted to tho oa\ise of' Home The two ■ clerks.of' the Proviucial Bank of Ireland) who absconded with £25,000 of. the Bank's money, have

>een arrested at Barcelona.. > H.M.S.; Nymph will - Bail for Aus;ralia after the.aumroer- naval mante-

Hoso Kono, March {). ■ The Chinese at Cliei-foi are plotting the. destruction or - expulsion of foreigners. A British corvette has been despatched to the scene,:

Paris, March 10. ' . The, town, of Biarritz was- gaily decorated in honor of Queim Victoria's arrival, Her Majesty was received' with; great 'enthusiasm' by the peopl?. President Carnot' has forwarded a telegram .of wolcpnio to ller Majesty. Shares in the Comptoir d'Escompte are now quoted,at 350 francs., Shares in the copper, syndicate and Bio Tinto mine have also: suffered a heavy. fall.