NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3481, 10 April 1890, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

ENGLISHLondon, April 7. Lord Randolph Churchill concludes a scries of criticisms in tho Morning Post by advising the withdrawal of tho Irish Land Purchase Bill after the second reading, if the Pavnollites make any desperato resistance, and an appeal to tho. country in the autumn,

April 8. English shipbuilders are not allowed to tender for the. construction of Portugese warships. Mr 0. T, Bitoliie, President of the Local Government Board, iu reply to a memorial from tho Trades, states that it is impossible to start relief works for the unemployed. • Lord Knutsford states that he will withhold' his opinion as to assisted emigration until ' tho Committee reports, He remarked that the colonies are hostile ,to the export of paupers, • ■ . ' . '

The Calliope has arrived at Ply' mouth.

It is understood that Professor Huxley stops,at Teneriffe, It is alleged that it was only the insiatance of Lord Derby that , compelled Lord Knutsford to assent to the Colonial Divorce Bills, ,

Richard and George Dnvies, convicted of oiurdering their father,wero hanged to-day. The Home Office yesterday received threo-thousand telegrams asking that a reprieve ho granted, and,, the mother,of the condemned lads and the jurors who recommended them to mercy on the grounds of their youth cabled to Hor Majesty at Aix-lea Bains, but all without avail,

FOREIGN. Cairo, April 7. Prince Victor has reached' here on Uis way Home, Antwerp, April 7. The Belgium sugar refiners have unanimously resolved to demand tho abolition of bounties. Brussels, April 8. The Belgian Cabinet proposes to guarantee a loan of six millions storling for the Conga Free Stato, Zanzibar, April 7. The statement that Emin Boy was to lead an expedition in search of ivory into the interior is confirmed. Berlin, April 7. It is assorted that the Emperor designs to placate France if possible for tho purpose of isolating Russia. Si. Petersburg, April 8. Some changes have been made in the' .Russian Diplomatic Department which are regarded as significant of an intention to strengthen the Panslavist influence. Count Lobanoff has been transferred to the Berlin Embassy, Nelidoff to Vienna, and Linorieff to Constantinople. Tschebrikora, who was arrested and then released for writing a letter to the Czar demanding reforms, has been exiled to the Caucasus. Tho Czar attended the Guard's fete yesterday.

The students agitation is subsiding, the usual University vacation having begun.

Professor Mendheroff has resigned. Only tho leaders of tho previous agitations aro being expelled. The Nihilists aro alill active. The Chinese are fortifying tlieir .frontier. ■

The report is denied that General Avmenkoir had devised a scheme for diverting the waters of tho river Oxus into tho Caspian Sea, to afford continuous navigation from tho heart of Russia into Central Asia,