NEWS BY CABLE

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3200, 9 May 1889, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE

• The:>Exhiliitioh advanced' tpwaida r completion;, :.->. Tlibr British Cnlirt'ia raoiß attractive 1 tlmu'thflse of otlip'vEiir6|ienh c6unliies'.~J;\ : ;-v/-. x Sii; P, JDijlonvMl, in the"-absence of Sit' Polydoi o De Kfysor.through illness, welcomed Fresiilent : Cai*n6l in the British Court on behalf ol'M English Executive Commissioners.' Sir Graham Berry, Sir Walter.BulleY, Me E../Q. N. liraddon, , the,' other colonial delegates, were ranged on the right hand side of the Court, and the British ■ delegates on the left hand I Bidp.;'>':-;j .':.' ' ■ .'.'.'■. .■.'■'•■■'■' ; V Sir Dillon Bell, speaking in French, ofierccl France the best wishes ot England,' and the assurance of her 'sympathy in the undertaking. '. President Oarnot, warmly shaking hands with Sir Dillon Bell, eulogised the splendid display hiadn.by British exhibitors, and said lie -thanked, England and/ her. colonies :;, : niost sincerely for their" exertions in. the endeavour to make thtj Exhibition a a success. He also thaiiked-tlie English and colonial delegates fbr;the gtiiieioiis welcome they hud given him to the.'British Court. He promised to make an early inspection of : the Court. .'■' ~ ■ .; • ''iv .-.:.' • '•..-'■"'LoNDONjMay 7...

The Paris ' correspondent of the Daily Telegraph relates some amusing incidents.- in connection ;with the opening oi the Paris Exhibition, in which several, colonial; delegates figured. The French police in one case, thinking Sir Dillon Bell had no right -iii the British Court, ordered him to leave, and threatened to expel him from the building. Sir Dillon defied the, officers and dan d them to touch him, and the police shortly discovering their mistake, the mutter ended. . Another colonial commissioner, who was surprised in the net of i changing kills ilia room attached to the British section, was ordered hy,| the police to leave, on I lie ground that he was undressed. Ho refused, aud cried for help, He was ultimately rescued liy sonic Englishmen, who forced 'lie police lo retire. At the opening of the Boyal Academy to-day the Marquis of Salisbury announced that an anonymous donor had ill'eml to erect a new National Portrait Gallery on a site Vllered by the Government near Tial'algar-Sqmire, wbeui the former institution stood, It is rumoured that Mr W, H. .Smith, leader of the. House, ol Cominous, is the donor referred to,

The floating of a new Australian Bank liiih leen abandoned, owing to the impression that banking is overdone in the colonies', and (be fear that a new vt-ntnre might embark in risky business in order to be in a position to declare sj.eedy dividends, Mr Wm. U'BriHii. M.P., and Mr JS. Harrington, M.P., who was released from imprisonment in order to aitend before tlu' Times-Parnell Commission, arrived in Court this morning, Mr O'Brien was dressed in Ilia prison clothes, having refused to put on an ordinary dress, The cross-examination cf Mr Parqell was continued : Witness explained that in the year 1881 a speech delivered by.him, and quoted l>y the Attorney General, referred to ribbon organisations, flu said he had never beard that the League bad paid a hundred guineas towaids the defence ot the Moonlighters at Cork in 1881, but upon tiro AttorneyGeneral reminding him thrt the subject was discussed in Parliament in 1832, Mr Parnellsaid that he had heard that the defence was paid for by a League cheque in the case ol Connell, whoshot Leary, and admitted paying-far tiro defence of some men charged with the 'committal of it serious crime. {

CONSTANTINOPLE, 7th Miiy. The Kurdish chief, Mussa Bey, escaped from an Armenian jiiiroq, and, having asserubhd a gang, of hi* followers, raided the residences.of the nobles, the occii|mnls uf.'which were seized, and petroleum being poured o\et them, they wen: Imrni to deaili. It IB reported that the Czar is shortly to be crowned King of Poland.