NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3814, 19 May 1891, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

ENGLISHLondon, May 14. Obituaries—Edwin Long and Thos. Collier, R.A.'s, from influenza ; and H. Sampson, editor of the Referee. Bishop Moorehouse is suffering from influenza, and the Prince of Wales has had a a attack of rheumatism.

The British protectorate over Nyassaland is gazetted.

May 16,

German? and Italy are supporting England in assisting to suppress the persecution of the Jews in Corfu.

During the outrages 20 Jews were killed. ~

The populace of Corybinco is emigrating. Turkey and Greece are supplying food to those expelled from the island. Further outrages have taken place at Corfu, and in consequence the European Powers are urging other countries to earnestly intervene with a view to suppressing the order. British and French squadrons have arrived at Corfu. It is reported that England i negotiating with Portugal for th purchase of Goa, a port town and territory between the boundaries of Madras and Bombay. At the annual Convention of the Irish National League of Great Britain, it was unanimously resolved that Mr Parnell is both morally and politically unfit to be further trusted. Attewell and Gunn deny the statement that they had refused to join Lord Sheffield's cricket team about to visit the colonies.

FOREIGN. St. Petebsbubg, May 14. The Russian Government covertly continues the oppression to which the Jews are subjected, and 22,000 have been expelled from Moscow to the southern and western districts. 20,000 others will be sent away next month. May 16.

It is now believed that the man who made the attack on the life of the Czarewitch at Kioto was a Nihilist, and he succeeded in making his escape.

The wounds received by the Grand Duke ai'e more serious jjiat at first reported,

The .Russian Government intend to present Prince George of Greece with a medal in recognition of his bravery in preventing further injury to the Czare witch. The Governor of Astrakhan has been ordered to clear his province of Jews. Lisbon, May 16. Tlie issue of paper currency has been postponed. The Portuguese Ministry bas resigned. The financial crisis still continues. May 17. The new Anglo-Portuguese agreement with regard to South Africa will be disoussed in the Cortes next week. Ottawa, May 16. It is feared that Sir J. Mac Donald, the Premier, suffers from paralysis of the throat, [ AUSTRALIAN. I Hobabt, May 17. A terrible murder bas been committed at Richmond, where a woman, Mrs Ogilvie, was found with ber head partially blown off. The body had been thrown into the river. A young man named Cooley has been arrested on suspicion of having committed the crime. The supposed motive is that the husband of the victim had been subpoenaed as a witness in a criminal charge pending against the prisoner, who was out on bail, Sydney, May 17. The Twenty-mile Championship Walking Handicap was won by McCune, of New Zealand. Harris, of Victoria, was second, and Morehcad, New Zealand, third, May 18. The time for the Twenty Mile Championship Walking Handicap on Saturday was two hours fifty-nine minutes. Melbourne, May 18. In his evidenoe at the inquiry into the loss of the Craigburn, Pilot Blanchard stated that Captain McKee threatened to shoot anyone touching the tackle of the bouts or attempting to leave the vessel. The captain also struck witness and accusod him of being in league with the masters of the tugs to levy blackmail on him.