NEWS BY CABLE

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3210, 21 May 1889, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE

ENGLISH. London, May 17. The informant who laid the charge against Lord Mandeville, son o£ the Duke of Manchester, for obtaining the sum of £IBSO by means of.false pretences refuses to offer any evidence in' the case, bub the magistrate who heard ihe preliminary stage insists on the charge being proceeded with, and has inctrncted. the public proseoutor to take action, All hope of saving H.M.S. Sultan, which struck on a rock in the vicinity of Malta, has been abandoned, and. efforts are now being made to save her guns and other portions, of her armament, ' . " Itisintended toholdagrand military review at Alderslut during the visitof the Emperor of Germany to England. The new sshools at Eton were opened to-day by Her Majesty the Queen. The Marquis • of Salisbury has forcibly expressed himself in favor of a British protectorate over Matabeleland, .and considers that by the Zambesi Eiver an international high-, way and permanent entrance has been discovered outsido of the Portuguese .territory.

May 18. Itis rumored, that David Christie Murray, the novelist, will shortly visit Australia on a lecturing tour, The personal estate ol the late Sir Thoa, Gladstone has been sworn at £254,000, ■ Peter Jackson, .the colored Australian fighter, will, it is believed, shortly arrive in England, when he will accept the challenge thrown out onibehalf of Slavin,.

The police have made enquiries into the loss ot the 5000 sovereigns from the steamer Iberia,'and express an opinion that the gold was short shipped at Melbourne. Mrs Adams, wife of Mr Stephen Adams, has been arrested, on a charge of poisoning her husbands brother, James Maybriok, a morchant of Liyorpool. Sir Folydore ie Keyser has made complaints on the erection of the Victorian gold arch, on the ground that it causes a certain amount of dust, and has threatened to pull it down. The Commissioners have looked into the matter, and reminded the President of the English Com: mission that the Victorian Court is erected on private ground, and therefore neither he nor tliey have any right to interfere.

Two hundred members of the House of Commons have signed a memorial to M. Sadi. Carnot, the French President, in which they regret the absenoe of Lord Lytfcon, the English Ambassador, from Paris at the opening of tho Exhibition. Henri Bochefort, the French political refugee, who is at present visiting London in company with' General' Boulanger, has been arrested for attempting to shoot Pilotil, an artist, in Regent-street, It is asserted that the latter first assaulted Rochefort. General Boulanger offered bail for llochefort upon his arrest being effected, but the ofler was declined by tho police.

Bit William Jervois, ex-Governor of New Zealand, has arrived here, It is stated (hat he will phortly be appointed to superintend some important military engineering works.

The Times-Parnell Commission, London, May 17. It is rumoured that the report of The Times-Parnell Commission will bB handed in in February next. The evidence adduced this week has beett principally confined to priests and active members of. the Land League. All theso have sworn that the League was not responsible for outrages in Troland, which they denounced. The priests swear that they denounced tlie outrages from tho altars. All tho witnesses, however, admitted having advocatedboycotling.