NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 2845, 30 June 1891, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

ENGLISH, London, June 27. Lord Brook threatens to institute proceedings against any persons connecting his wife with the incidents arising out of the Tranby-Crofl baccarat scandal. * In the House of Lords to-day, a motion tabled by Lord Den man to reject the Irish Land Purchase Bill was negatived, and the Bill was rend a second time. The Radical opposition to the free education proposals ot the Government is increasing.

Prince Alexander ot Battenburg is suffering from gastric ulcer, and his condition is considered critical. Mr Parnell and- Mrs O'Shea will be re-married in church towards the end of July. They propose to visit America in the autumn.

Captain Verney, who was convicted for attempting to procure a young woman under the age of 21 years tor au immoral purpose, has been removed from the position held by him as Denuty»Lie'utenant of Buckinghamshire.

Mr Gladstone is improving in health Cambridge University will confer. the degree of Doctor of Letters on Professor Tucker, of the Melbourne University. FOREIGN. Lisbon, June 27. The Bill submitted to the Cortes authorising the sale of the Portuguese colonies in East Africa has been rejected. Berlin, June 27. The agitation for the repeal of the corn duties is increasing. St Petersburg, June 27. The Czarina and Czarcwitch have arranged to visit Paris in August next, and subsequently the Czarina will visit England to see her sister, the Princess of Wales.

An agent of Baron Hirsch is travelling in Southern Russia with a view of studying established Jewish colonies. Valparaiso, Juue27. DonClaudio Vicina, the presen* Premier, has been elected to succeed President Balmaceda. The insurgents are organising a final, attack on he strongholds of the Government. Paris, June 27. Owing to electricity in the air the telegraph lines are unworkable, and telephonic connection between Paris and London is interrupted. Madrid, June 27th. A treaty of commerce between Spain and the United States has been signed and comes into operation in September next. Berlin, June 27.

A serious collision occurred in the Boitzenburg tunnel on the BerlinHamburg Railway. So far as is known at present only three persons were injured, but the details to hand are very meagre.