CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4428, 26 May 1893, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

British .and Foreign.

London, May 23.

.' Lord Randolph Churchill, speaking at Bolton, t-atd;tl:c financial resources of Ireland would be left in the hands of hungry and 'ill-disposed petHOM who preferred plunder and oppression to good government. He declared that tlie -House'"of .Commons\yould "ieTuab to he dominated by a party of political brigand? anil Nihilists . who hated everything that. was British.,

May 24. . Lord Salisbury-received nn imnieiise ovation' on his .arrival in Belf-ist. The horses'were taken out of his carriage, which was then drawn through the principal streets by 11 number of his; , >i

The Daily Chronicle estimates that the loss hy the drought in Franco will amoun tto £32,000,000. ;.: Sixteen and a half iniliion acres of feed crop's havo been destroyed. ■ : --; y ', In'Germanytho drought is also ruining crops. ";;lt is reported that the Queen rejected tbclist of Birthday honours proposed by.Mr,Gladstone, jAt the bead of the list was the name of Earl Spencer, who, it was suggested, should be created a marquis. ' ■

Paris, May - 24,

•Arton, one of tho Panama, acoused, was sentenced to twenty years imprisonment for stealing the funds of the company, and to 'five years' im j prisonment, with the loss of civil rights, and a fine of f 16,000, for try. ing to corrupt Deputy Sans Lerou.. May 20. It is generally expected that there will bo a war in Madagascar. ■ New York, May 23.

: v The rebels in Nicaragua defeated the Government troops, after a , fierce battle. Tho rebnls aro protectingthe Canal.