CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4369, 16 March 1893, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

London, March 14. Mr Gladstone is better, but is still confined to his bed, The Eadicala and Nationalists are much aggrieved at Mr Gladstone's yielding to the .Unionists, and postponing the second reading of the Home Bule Bill until after Easter. A ivarm debate has taken place id the House of Commons on the report of the Evicted Tenants Commission,

. Mr Balfour insisted that it was mere waste paper. Mr Morley, Secretary for Ireland, replied that the Government intended to submit for the consideration of members proposals based on tho Commissioner's report'. Melboubne, Maroh 14.

The decision of the Government to assist the Associated Banks should necessity ariße, is the subject of much congratulation in the city, Shares in the bankb Bhow an all-round rise in value. It is estimated that the revenue (or 1803-94 will be £700,000 below the 1 expenditure, and the Government cannot see. its. way to reduce the expenditure by more than £500,000, They will probably impose an income tax ou all salaries over £2OO per annum in order to raise the balance. Calcutta, March 14. The hill tribesmen attacked Fort Chilas, near Gilgit, but were repulsed 'with a loss of two hundred. , One British officer and twenty Isepoyswerekilledjandthjrtywounded,