NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4118, 20 May 1892, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

English, London, May 18. Professor Henry Drummond, in ml interview with a representative o' Sjft Pall Mall Gazette, declared thai the Queensland natives were treated as veritable outcasts, Tiioir lives were freely taken in certain districts on tho smallest provocation, aud no questions were asked. Their grievances were far worse than those of the im» ported Kanakas, The Small Holdings Bill has passed through the Commii.eo in the House of Commons. The shareholders of the Freeman's Journal and National Press met to discuss the irregularities in connection with the amalgamation of the two concerns. Violent recrimination took plaoe between Messrs Dillon and Healy, and thi former denounced Archbishop Walsh for interfering in publio affairs. The dismission has already lasted two days, and is still# proceeding. \

Tho Irish loyalists are collecting £IO,OOO to enable them to fight the approaching general election. The Morning Post' says the general election will take place at the end of Juno or early in. July. The Tories ridicule the violent and continuous squabbling among the Irish Party, and point to the* dispute over the control of tho Dublin press as a sample of the Btate of affairs which would prevail ii Ireland were granted Home Rule.

• Foreign, New York, May 17. Bodil, the Government General, was so incensed at the fall of Bolivar, that lie ordered the execution of six officers of the Government army. In consequence of this order the comrades of the condemned men revolted, shooting Rodil, and afterwards decapitating liira,