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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3238, 24 June 1889, Page 2

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' ; CtBNBEAL SUMMARY, :. Auokmnd, Jiuie.23.: Lord-James Douglass; brother of tlie'Marquis of'Queensberry, was warned off the ILtighsh race track on the 80th of May for" ffolobing." . Lord Lous'dalo arrived in London on the 81st May. v Ho declares his intention of organising an expedition to the North Pole.' His experiences in that region havo not discouraged him, but only prepared him to do better. '

Lord Salisbury, replying to the deputation on the 80th May in favor of a biraetallio .standard on the currency, said he did not thin! a. parliamentaiy decree could settle the question, but the opinion of the people; founded on business ideas, must decide it. • '.

The will of John Bright was probated on May 14; It bequeaths an estate valued at L 86.184 to his children."' There are no public bequests. A committee has been formed to arrange for a national memorial to the doceasod statesman,

Mr Parnell will visit Edinburgh at the end of June, when he will accept the Freedom of the: City, which the Council have already acoorded him.

Pillotel, a Frenoh artist, met Henri Eochefort on flegent street on May 18th, and insulted him by shouting "Liar!" aud "Cowardl" in bis ears. Eochefort retained bis usual composure until Pillotel attempted to strike him, when ho drove him off with the point of a pistol. Both men were arrested, Hoohofort was put under bonds of £l5O.

In regard to the arrest of several titled gamblers at the Field Club and who were arraigned in a London Court iu May, the Prince of Wales was reported to have been been in tho Club room just before the arrests were made, hut had a "tip" and' left. At the hearing of the case on tbe. 25th May, the Public Prosecutor announced the intention of the authorities to suppress all gaming olubs. Hundreds of them exist in London.

On 1% 7th before the Commission Mr Parnell correoted bis testimony of the week preceding. Ho said he had been misled. The fact was when he said to the Commission that Eibbonism and Ribbon Sociotiea generally wore dead, he did not refer to the conspiracies at large when he addressed the Commons. Therefore his speech stated only the truth, and he now stood by that speech. A railway train with 800 pilgrims en route to Some was assailed by a .mob at Trieste, and bombarded with stones. Many persons were injured, and the railway carriages badly wrecked, '. . ■

On May 15th a body of Booialisl hauled down the Eoyal Staudar from the great tower at the Hagui and hoisted the Socialist flag in ii place."

'• Uhuleep Singh, tho Indian Prince, r e was privately married to Miss Ada l| in Paris, May 20th. 0 The wedding was strictly prirate. i r The bride is the daughter of the late a MrD.B. Wetherall of Hampshire, j n England, The honeymoon will be * spent in Eussia, for which country 6 the party left on the day following j' the marriage,' r ~~ ~ , J Telegraphic, D SAMOAN~N£WS. r Newsfrom Samoa by theMariposa 3 states that the Nipsio is at Honolulu, r and will sail thence for San Franoisco i for repairs, as it is deemed that the 1 risk of the voyage to Auckland is too | great, Everything is quiet at Apia, ,' Mataafa gave a dinner on tho Bth \ instant, to which he invited Admiral ! Kimbcrley, the consuls and principal , foreign residents, The invitations ; wero generally: accepted, but the > German portion of the community ' did not attend,. An American sailor was accidentally killed on the 10th, ; A _ German saloonkeeper named Voight was handling a revolver carelessly when it exploded and shot the sailor through the heart. ;