NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3172, 5 April 1889, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

London, April 3. Mr Dawes, in roply to the strictures of Fair.Play, says it is truo that the late Sir W. Pearoe'a mortgage of a quarter of a million over the property of the Now Zealand Shipping Company has been transferred to bim," but it is untrue that he has any intention of foreclosing. On the contrary, he is' resolved to maintain the independence of the company. Mr 0. JR. Strickland will be reinstated as manager, and MrTyser will continue to aot as broker. It is asserted that the coiupauy's shares have advanced 50 per- cent Bince Mr Dawes became director, The Hon William Speucer Bate-man-Hanbury, eldest son of Lord Bateman, has been petitioned for the sequestration "of the estate, owjug to gambling losses. It is reported that at oqa sitting recently ho lost £20,000 ■•! It-is pYob'able that Lord Kintara

will suoceed the late Sir, Thomas Gladstone as Lord Lieutenant of Kincardineshire. Her Majesty has condoled with the Emperor of Germany on the disaster that has befallen the German navy at Samba. In openingthe case for the defence Sir 0. Russell, detailed the Tory Parnellite Alliance in 1885, and said lie would prove that Lord Carnarvon conferred with Messrs Parnell. and Justin McCarthy, thereby showing that the conservative leaders did not believe the Irish members were implicated in the murders which had taken place in Ireland. It is expected that Sir Charles' speech will last a week.

Paeiß, April 8. Figaro, the Boulangist organ, states that General Boulanger and Henri Epchefort are at Brussels. The General has telegraphed a manifesto, to the effect that he will never consent to be judged by a Senate which is blinded by personal passions, but that he is ready to answer any accusations that may be brought against him before a magistrate or jury. Otherwise he will wait in a free country till the' geueral election has resulted in the return of men who will make the Republic habitable for honest, free and honorable men,

The trial of those charged with complicity in the aots of the Patriotic League commenced to-day, when M. Naquefc, member of the Senate, and M.M. Laguerre, Turnet and Deroulede (President of the Patriotic League), leaders of the League were called upon to answer the charges made against them. The Chamber was crowded, and a great sensation was caused when the charges were read, Precautions were taken by the military authorities to prevent any disorder during the proceedings. M. Deffi3, member of the Senate, against whom similar proceedings are to be taken, protested against the course adopted, on the ground that the tribunal was a hostile and unnatural one, although he was prepared to appear before ordinary Judges on the charges preferred against him. In the Chamber of Deputies a Bill providing 'for the prosecution of persons accused of libelling publio officials was rejected.