CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4407, 1 May 1893, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

British and Foreign, jV —, London, April 27. ; Tbenßß?f\Vnßend,'; ,: wlio; was' .arrested owingtohis cccentrio behaviour in St James' Park, lived for seven years in Sydnoy. Tliochargo preferred against biin of intent to ..shoot Mr Gladstone rests upon rambling: memoranda, found in bis possession, that thespeccbes of Colonel Sanderson and Sir Henry James on. the Homo Rule justified homicide. The Pall Mall Gazette-states that when Mr Gladstone left Downing-. Btreet on the day on which the Iloine Rule Bill was read asecond.time Townsend was lying in .wait closo at hand to shoot him, but the strong rejemblance the Premier bore to.Town-; Bend's father caused the would-be asBailant to pause. Enquiries as to Townsend's antecedents, show, that there is insanity in.the.family, Mr Buxton, Under-Secretary for. the Colonies, in reply, to the-Hon. W. St. J. Brodrick, promised to lay a return on tho table of -the-House of Commons showing the cost of the erection of tho Parliament Houses in Sydney and Melbourne and other. Parliamentary expenditure. tho Home Secretary, in the Houbb of Commons,.denied that tho Dowager Duchess of Sutherland, who was committed to prison for contempt of Court, ■was'-,allowed unusual privileges.

The Budget was agreed; to after eome pungent criticism from Mr Goßoben. Paris, April 28, Tho epidemic of influenza continues in the city, end its ravages ore becoming serious. Washikos, April 28. Tho Chilian Government aro disputing with Mr Egan, the United . Minister, and the latter is expapers. PrrfWnf Cleveland reviewed the world's war-shipfl to-day, and the spectacle was an immense eucoess. The line of vessels extended for three miles, and the palm was awarded to the British fleet. Ottawa, April 27. The Dominion Government, in view of the inauguration oi the Vancouver mail service by Huddart, Parke! and Co, is disseminating information respecting the goods fliich are likely to command a sale in the Australian colonies, Cairo, April 28. The Egyptain Government Has addressed a Note to the Powers BBkjng their sanction to a modification of the mixed tribunals. ; Waswkoion, April 28. jjr Stevens, United States Minister in Hmii> baa resigned, and Mr

Blount, wlfo was despatched as Com- 1 missionev during tho recent trouble, 1 will probably succeed him. : Sofia, April 28. Tlio proposed visit oi Prinoo Ferdinand to the Sultan has been abandoned, owing to the opposition displayed by- M, Nokiloff, the Russian Ambassador in Turkey. Melbourne, April 28, The diamonds (oF the value of £2000) stolen from the private residence of Mr Keating, South Yarra, on the 14th instant, bave been recovered, and two men lmvo been taken into custody on suspicion of being connected with the theft. Brussew, April 28. The Belgian Senate has agreed to tlio plural voting proposols.