NEWS BY CABLE

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3207, 17 May 1889, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE

London, May 14. Mr O'Brien intends to sue tht Maquis of Salisbury for allowed libel a n slander, in a "speech delivered I'J'thePremierat Watcrford iiuMarch lust.

Sir F. do Winton lias received o letter from H. A), Stanley, in which ho expressed his intention of returning Irom Wndehii by the East African route. It is impossible, to say m present whether Emin Bey is with him,

Mr Hairy Graham, of South Australia, who contested a seat at the last general, election, has been accepted as the Tory candidate for St. Pancras (West) seat in'the House of Commons.

The Marylebone CO., while agreeing to ..allow Spofforfch to play for Derbyshire in a match against themselves on the 20th, refuse to recognise the instance as a precedent affecting the ■ qualification of county players.

Cairo, May 15. The Mahdi has sent letters to the Egyptian Post 'at: Wady Haifa threatening the Queen and Khedive. He also forwarded ilie original of the letter'which the Queen Bent to King John of Abyssinia by'Mr Portal, ; when that gentleman went on; his mission of mediation in December, . It has transpired that the Countess of Dudley, knowing that her son had been fleeced in- the gambling hell carried on in the dub at Park Place, and failing -to indcce the police to take actim, applied toihe Home Secretary, MrMatt'iews, to havo the club closed. Tho result was that the police were compelled to interfere,

Three members of the Carlton. Club wore among those arrested.. > Financiers consider it was unwise of New South Wales to pledge herself not_ to borrow again within a given period, They consider the present junoture the most opportuno that could possibly exist for floating a loan'. Mr W.L. Bright, M.P. for Stoke-upon-Tent, will include New Zealand in his,colonial totir.

The House "of Commons rejected the proposal for the disestablishment of the Church in Wales. ; '..'BihoApobb, May 15, 'ln an encounter "with the Dutch and .the Natives in Sumatra, thirty of the ' former were killed or founded. -/;'.'.' ./'YiBSW,'-Mayls.---The Austrian Goyorntnorit is '-exempting. ne\v wo'rkinen'B.' dwe(li... a, biiilt on nipdein improved, pripcip' i, from taxation for 24 years,Vi: . '. . .., ; New YosK.May is..', :■ A:;humber -of highwaymen-&.'•'.

tacked the.. Army;Tfeasury. e&t>inte§|| Arizona; arid' : L wounded fatally.;.:-Several of tlie.iefscqrt nwfeV off on tba appearance of the who obtained .booty" to.tbo extent :6f!%'f SOiOOOdollars. .'.■'■ :/::;^W':M : kMI

!.-..." " .yV;;',-; Singapore,; May' 1 The troopsbf tbe Sultan of AbWjft f; ;f attacked the Dutch' garrison: of W^iS; : . After/a sharp fight, were'rduted,' withvaUbss^of'ieOr'v^ killed, :,;■:;■

;. ■ A V • ;;v ,:/■?: May ;15. f.;l : 0t . ,The 'lion had an interview of ■with- the_Emperor WilliarnV;They |• asked liim'tdenquire into; their •txiid he; repjie|. 'enqiiiring; 'ilie Emperor.wSnt on to ,' warn tlfeirt that be would tb'e mighty, resources at the; disposal ~~ of the head ti the -German./ Empire to repress' Socialist /agitation and intrigues, and./if.;therei was the slightest resistance lie would shoot every man. If, however, they were peaceable he would see that they received due'protection.: It mated the strike occasions a daily loss to capitalists of a million marks, l