NEWS BY CABLE

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3194, 2 May 1889, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE

London, April 80, Sir H. Robiusen has received a farewell entertainment at. the Cape, JJord Knutsford being ; unable to find a sucoesßor has requested him to resume the governorship, for another term, but SirHerculeshaß not yet made up his mind.

Sir J, G. Bptigg, Premier of the Cape Colony, has intimated to, the Colonial Office on behalf of the Ministry that the colonists intend to decide the future of the Capo re'gardlesß of Uowning-street., . ' .' Ih Gladstone, in an article in the Nineteeth Century, expresses his opinion that tlio claims of the .Pope to the'temporal supremacy are obsolete.

Mr Parnell gives evidence before the Commission'on its resuming, and the proceedings are expected to come to an end within a month after that. The Paruell Commission resumed to-day./ Mr Asquith, M.P., began the; exainination-in-chief of Mr Parnell. The latter stated that-his attention was first called to polities by the passing of the, Ballot Act, which made it possible for Ireland to have to somo extent an independent .Parliament, and enabled tho tenants to cope with the landlords' coercion. Ho described the formation of the Land League by Pr.lsaao Butt, and stated that he came to an unsatisfactory conclusion with regurd tg the proceedings of Dr Butts' party, 'Witness denied' that he bad ever' been a member of a pecret society; except the Foresters, Egan had never invited him. to join the Irish Eepublican Brotherhood. There was a political as well .as a social objeot in ,the land movement,, Dr. Butt had been"cautioned by the Land League that lie would be considered responsibe" for the foolish actions of aiiy of its branches. ■•■■.• : '

- St Peteesbbko, April 30.'■'. Coren refuses to cede Deerlsknd upon which the Russian Govornmeni id tended, to establish a coaling sttitiun APo'i -,C : Oi*Awij;ApnT3o.t. The train whicH : met witliv an v ac«i Jent at Hamilton was carrying 15( excursionists to witness the .Oenteii -Pisl celebrations: at -.New: Yoirk. Ii

was thrown off Iho rails by some, mishap to a switch, and smashed into . , a water tnnk, A carraige contetning \ 85 passengers, most of whom were* asleep, wan hurled on (o the top of # k. the engine, and caught firo fr«<njtho > furnace of the latter, EntaiiA-m - i tho wreokago maty of themiforCßßate i people were nnnbb to escanß, and no les3 than 20 wem burned to death. i The flames spread, and destroyed the ' 1 whole train. , There was v no water, andthohejt was-so great that all attempts at rescuo were useless. ~ Caiho, April 30. Rumours are being reiterated to - the effect that El SenoußM, flushed' £ with bis success over the* Mahdi, ? intends to make a- demonstration ' ; against Egypt, f t Constantinople, April 30. , Riimours are being persistently , Bpread about thatdtossia is secretly mentcing ! Paris, April JOL/ j The Victorian and New Zealanr t are the most advanced Courts aUhe \ Exhibition. ' «« 3 Astormy meeting of shareholders in b the Comptoir d'Esoonipte has been a held, at which 2000 members were a present. Eesolutions were carried a diamissing'tbe dii ectors and agreeing J to go into liquidation, with the object r of forming a new company, fotjpio ,r confusion prevailed' at the nMing e and the liquidators were mobbed. Madrid, April SO; A Spanish novelist, named Eaphel Carrome, has been sentenced to four ' months imprisonment here for writing a libel on the Duko of Edinburgh's v private life,