NEWS BY CABLE

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3824, 1 June 1891, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE

ENGLISH. London, May 28. Archbishop Croke, in a speech at Limerick, said he was greatly afraid the cause of Home Rule was lost. The people were utterly unfit to rule if they sympathised with Mr Parnell. It is reported that the chartered Company's forces have defeated-the Portuguese volunteers on the river Ueiube. May 29. In the course of a speech to-day, Mr Gladstone, in referring to the expulsion of Jews from Russia, said nothing was to be gained by denouncing the revolting treatment to which they were subjected, and it would be better to appeal to the European public after preparing a digest of the exceptional laws of Russia. The tenants at Old Tipperary, who were evicted for not paying their rent, [ have accepted the terms of the landlords. They have now paid arrears of rent due, and have returned to their homes. FOREIGN. Vienna, May 29. The Emperor of Austria entertains the delegates to the Postal Conference at a banquet on Saturday. Berlin, May 29. Owing to the prospects of a bad harvest the Berlin Municipal Counoil have requested Government to immediately suspend the duties on cereals, and to have them Abolished altogether at an early date, The high corn duties in Northern Germany have had the effect of forcing the price of bread up to famine prices. St. Petersburg, May 29, Owing to Russian authorities harassing exhibitors and visitors to the Moscow Exhibition, some unpleasantness with France has been occasioned. Notwithstanding that every preparation had been made for the Czar's visit to the exhibition, at the last mament he decided not to leave the Royal Palace, and it is alleged that the cause of the postponement was due to the discovery of a plot to assassinate him. Rome, May 29. Marquis Rudini, the Italian Premier, bas informed both the German and Austrian Governments that it is the intention of Italy to renew the Triple Alliance. Paris, May 29.

The French Minister for War has sent a grateful message of thanks to Lord Olias. Beresford, commander of H.M.S. Undaunted, for the assist-* ance rendered by him to the French war-ship Seignelay .when she was stranded on the sandbank of Oaffa on the Levant coaht. The election for the vacant seat in the House of Commons for North Bucks, rendered vacant by the expulsion of Captain Verney, who was imprisoned for an offence against a female, resulted in the return . of a Home Ruler.

Calcutta, May 29

The trial of the native Regent of Manipur is fixed for June Ist, and that of Senaputty follows. It has been decided to allow them the' assistance of British officers in their defence.

New York, May 29. Experiments have been made with Edison's latest invention, the Ninetograph—combining phonograph with photograph—and the results have been marvellous. The United States Government has abandoned the chase for the Bteamer Itata.

' ; Valparaiso, May 29. Chilian ladies are selling; their jewellery in order to raise money with which to purchase arms for the insurgents. '"' '" '" '"'" '"""' '' "' : ' The United States cruiser Charleston has srrived at the Peruvian port of Callao. Her officers report they have failed to find any trace of. the rebel steamer Itat'a. It is believed that the Mexican authorities were-frightened by the presence of the Chilian insurgent warship Esmeralda, in the port of Acapulco and thus permitted her to coal.