NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3218, 31 May 1889, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

ENGLISH. London, May 28, Three hundred police, assisted by the military, are evicting tenants on the Irish estates of the Marquis of Lansdowne, Viceroy of India, A draft of the Irish Local Government iiill has been circulated in the House of Commons. 'May 29. The action of tlio Government in withdrawing Lord Lylton, British Ambassador at Paris, from that city on the occasion of the opening of the exhibition, was strongly condemned in the House of Commons last night by Mr Gladstone and Mr John Morloy. Seaman Thompson, who, in mistake ior Seaman Floyd of H,M.S. Calliope, was sentenced •to three months' imprisonment for deserting, having proved to the Satisfaction of the Admiralty that the case was one of 1 mistalieii identity, the latter are considering the question of compensating him,

At' tho inquest on the body, of James Maybrick.evidence was adduced that the wife lmd contracted improper relations with another man, and that Maybrick's medicine had boeu poisoned. ,

FOREIGN. Paris, May 28, In tbe Chamber of Deputies-today M. la. Guerre, member for the Department for Vauoluse, urged that the trial of General Boulanger should be proceeded with immediately. The President, M.Floquet, declined to permit any discussion on the subject. This decision was loudly questioned, and unexampled' scenes of disorder ensued. . 1 ' '

M, Paul de Cassagnac was one of the most f violent dissentients to tho ruling of the President, and. being severely censured by M. Fjoquet, retorted by challenging him to fight a duel.. Berlin, May 28. Seventy thousand Westphalian strikers have resumed , work. The strike is, however, extending in Bohemia. Vienna, May 28. The employes of the London city tramways and the tramway .employes I of tins city liavo made a joint throat I that tliey. will go out on stnko if their .wages are not raised, and'their hours shortened.: , San Francisco, May 28. Three American men-of-war have been sent to control the entrance to Behimg's Stiaits Belgrade, Mdy *2B. v. Bishop. Michael, one of the Bishops suspected by, ex-King Milan of Servia, and expelled from the .dominion,' on the charge of contumaoy, for refusing to pwunce to diyorfed fow &

Queen Natalie, will shortly return to ~ ! % ; Servitt. : ambkTcan. * x ; New York, May 28. Conghlin,\the ~ ex-detective, js charged with the mmder of jfc Cronin, and MacGfeehan nndSulllW with abetting. It is reported that Sullivan. Lasmade a Confession as to, ' his complicity in the murder, Pout-au-Pmnoe, • May 28, 1 Further fighting is anticipated, and the insurgent'forces are preparing to . . « make anotherattack on the Govern- -••<?& ment •. troops, ■ who.are under-' the. ■"? command of the Presjcient, General . Legitime. ' , ■ Australian. • ' '' Sydney, May 80. i Tho Government geologist has made an inspection respecting the reported discovery of a petrified »v , > human body :'in a .'imarble quarryW,-,>■ near x Orange, He 'describes tho h • affair as a hoax, and states-thai the figure discovered is moroly roughly :v v carved marble in the shapo of -a ; , human body. • ' Immense damage: has -been done ■ by floods in the town of West Mait-- . land. There is much- distress at .v., Merrioltville -in consequence - t)UM ■ , floods. Twenty thousand cerials, cbiefly shipments from New r Zealand and Viotoria, stored in the - ■■■■'; city, have been damaged 1 by flood ■ :?. water,. ■■ < ■ ' ■/> 1 ■ j - Melbouene, May3o. At a ball at Ulupun : West last v- , night, two of the party, named Fitzpatrick and Richardson,\ quarrelled, ;■ and 'a fight ensued. During tho '■ 1. struggle, Fitapatriok fell dead. . COMMERCIAL. London, May 28. ■ Now Zealand. frozen mutton is - quoted at 4Jd. ■: .. . . Wheat is firm, owing to heavy 1 rains.. ■ • • " ■ vv'./

New.Zealand Loan and Mercantile ■ - shares are quoted at £Blos.' . . Melbourne, May 28. Tbo oat market is excited, and,/' large sales are reported at 4s 2d. /