NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3206, 16 May 1889, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

London, May.lt. Obituary—lrving Bishop, thoughtreader, from hysterio catalepsy.It is midersiood the Paper Syndicate will increase the prices by fivo per cent,

Replying to a question in tlioHouso of Commons, Sir James Ferguson said no reports had been 'received by Government as to the alleged 1 perseciitionof the protestnnt natives of Mare'.' Island, one of, the Loyalty Group,' Tbe Naval Defenceßill has passed the Committee stage in the House o^jM Commons, JP"

The Inland Rovenue Bill has been" read a second time. " Baron Eeuter has obtained fresh' concessions from the Shah of Persia which \vill:ennble him to establish an: Imperial Bank to work the Bhale . mines in that country. Another plot against the life oi the Czar was discovered on the occasion .'.-. of Count Tolstoi's funeral, whijh th e v Czar attended. .Many arrests" were '"* the military. A number of bombß were found in a" liouso adjacent 1 to the route of the oortege. A hundred detectives mingled' ffith the populace, and thus managed to avert the plot. 1 Washington, May 18.- : It is suggested that a conference ot experts in the treatment of leprosy should be held in one of the European oapitals. It is also proposed that a memorial fund should bo raised in honor of the late Father Damien,' who recently died at the leper station hear Honolulu.. The Standard apsertsthat Germany has declined to sell estates in SanicAr and has refused to liiake any to refrain from chastising Mataafa. '.Chicago, May 13. U Dr Cromn, who 'was reported toC have beea murdered, has turned up safely in Toronto.' Hetsserts that he fled from here to avoid the. vengeanoe of the Clan-na-Gael Society. Home, May 13. The Italian Government will-agreo to recognise King Menclekag Negus of Abyssinia, providing the English Government is willing to do so. ■