General Summary.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3214, 27 May 1889, Page 2

General Summary.

JJoalaflger js- said to be almost unnoticed in London, rwhero ho expected to be the lion of the season,

Mr Joseph Chamberlain, in resigning his membership of the Liberation Booiety on May i, said he was no longer in harmony with its principles. .

■ljiis asserted that the recent visit of Count Bparcji■:' jp England, ostensibly as, a political mission, was really for the purpose of marrying a relative; ; of. LordVLondonde'rry,'''.Jt, however,,' resulted in .-a' complete feiljirei tV]§ lengagem'ent' is 'off.' The London Telegfaphj'pij -April 17,: proposes a national' 'recognition of Explorer H.M,Stanley's services ouhiß return from Africa. ■ '

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marij committedHp Loiadou derry Gaplarid-triedon Tuesday,: April 28, on;\;atcßaJge■: of asßißting'beeieged tenants i While being convejedjb gaol :ho was heartily clieeredjby cbe populace; The sergeant who was in charge of tho police ordered his menlo beat the. devil out of -theni, and Fathers'. Gildea and Boyle, and Conybeare, O'Brien and O'Shea,, as well as a reporter of the London Daily News, were roughly handled, Women we're trampled upon by the., crowd, arid in some'instances clubbed by the police.'' The Union Conferenceat BinningI ham (April. 25) adopted' resolutions I affirming that the land question is at tue.root of the Irish discontent, add land urged the Government to introduce a measure to enable the tenants to become owners of the land.

In his speech at Bristol on April 28rd, Lord Salisbury niadtf a bitter attack upon Homo Rule. He.ridi* ! culed the agitation, and said Cornwall had as much right to Home Rule as ; Ireland. The nationality'arguments, he said, were claptraps which ,would sacrifice the best interests pf industry and commerce to mero empty sentiment. .../'. "'-.; - . ■ On May 2nd the Tipperary Court affirmed the sentences of O'Connor, Condon, and Manning, all members of Parliament, for offences under the Crimes Act. They were'conveyed to Clbnniel Gaol the same afternoohr A crowd met the prisoners at the station and cheered. ' The prisoners refused to enter the prison van, and a desperate-struggle ;ensued between the guards audthe prisoners, in which the people took part.- The police, finally, to avoid bloodshed, allowed them to walk to/gaol;/ with the exception of Laiiner,'whose foot -was severely ivoiinded, .and he-went in a .carriage. . '.',~;■ ''■"' ...'.'"'

In his address at the banquot of the College of Physicians, Dublin, on the 27th 'April, the Marquis of Londonderry, announcing his resign nation of. the office of Lord Lieutenant, denied that this step wasiue to anything that Balfour had said. He accepted office, as lie stated, for two years, and .agreed to .retain it at a third at the request of the Government. . ' ■ -

Henri Boohefort's eon committed suicide at Bona, Algeria, on April 28. The Empress Elizabeth of Austria, now at Wiesbaden, is subject to the same mental malady that afflicted her cousin, ling Louis of Bavaria. When the Empress, learned of tho death of Prince Kudolph Bbe imaginedshe was her son's murderer. At preseut the acute stage of the disease has passed, leaving a notable softening, of her brain.

It was telegraphed on April 28rd that the Emperor had paid the late irown Prince's debts, which amounted to two and a half million dollars.

A wealthy Stotchmah residing in Houg Kong has offered to subscribe £IO,OOO to a fuud to indemnify the London Times in its present trouble, What is known as" the Australian election law has been adopted by! both Houses of the State of Missouri Legislature. The contract for building a powerful coast defence ironclad has been awarded by naval authorities at Washington to San Francisco.

'An English' syndicate has subscribed the money-necessary to com. plete tho tunnel tinder the Hudson River, New York, . ■ Theproposed Nationalist demonstration of Pilktown, Ireland, proclaimed by the Government, was held at Slough' instead, the police being outwitted; The crowd on returning was' charged by the Hussars, but no one was-injured. On April Ist, Cyril Flowers, a Gladstoniau member for Luton, was thrown from his horse in the Park, and came near having his brains dashed out, With his foot caught in the stirrup he was dragged a considerable 'djstance and hit on tho forehead by the hoof of his horse.