CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4435, 3 June 1893, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

. BritislFand-Foreign. l .;•.■■■ JbosnofyJunol. Mr. Poicevnl ban been elected a member of the Council of tho Society . of Arts. 1 Mr, Gladstone, in reply to Lord Wolmer, said it would be impossible for "Ireland to accredit envoys to foreign courts. Mr Chamberlain said they could easily be sent in the same way as those of the Confederates wero during the American Civil War. Ho was convincewgjU tho Nationalists would seize the moment of war with Franco to cpmleran the action of the Imperial Government. Lord Woiruar'a amendment withholding powor from the Irish Legislature ; to grant votes ai:d subsidies without askiiig for the consent of the Crotfn, was negatived by 52. Major-General Go dsworthy moved that- a member of die Royal Family should be substituted for,the LordLieutenant. Tho! suggestion 'was greeted with , cheers. Mr Gladstone agreed it would be desirable and would have an immense moral influence, even in a Democratic age,'' 'lt was' impossible to abolish the Viceroy of Ireland altogether. In the event of autonomy causing difference's of a party character to cense, they. member of tlio EoyaKi'amil^y The amendment was rejected by 48. ■ ' ■ British Roman Catholics, headed by the Duke of Norfolk and tho K irl oi Denbigh, have issued a manifesto stating ibat the Irish prists (wnnol cope jvith the revolutionary character of Homo Rule, and there is sure ul» timaiely to bo a conflict with the Church. The Bangkok correspondent of The Times reports that tho Siamese Government is getting ready 80,000 men to check tho encroachments of the French. Townsend, who was arrested on a charge ofthroatening Mr Gladstone, lias been proved to be a lunatic, and the Court has ordered his detention during the pleasure of Her Majesty. The Times correspondent at Mombassa reports that Sir Gerald Portal has settled Uganda, He has enlisted Egyptian troops, and abandoned the outermost forte. Washington, Juno 1. The directors of the Chicago Ex- \ faTbition has consented to appoint additional jurors, The Chicago Executive maintains that: the official systom of making ■ awards is sufficient, but offers to , appointjudges to inspect individual j exhibits. The European and Foreign Committee is considering the pro- ' -posal. .Thesilve// which ' ""' co9b%bT(Bo,'" Wnuveiled in the Montana Court of the Exhibition yesterday. , Paris, June 1, Twenty-three deaths from cholera J have ocourred in a fortnight at Morbihan, in Brittany. ' The French press urges, that in the absence of Yicomte Ferdinaud de Lesseps, others should be appointed to restore the influence of Prance in the affairs of the Suez Canal, which ' is now controlled by the British, Berlik, Juno 1. Herr Wolff, tho African .traveller, cables to the Berlin pr-ss that the British East African Company gave up Uganda to tho Imperial rule on Ist April, The withdrawal was ef feoted quietly, Sydney, Jnnel, News has been received from Tonga that Princo Tufaahou has been crowned, under the title of King George Tabou 11. The ceremony was of an imposing description. '' Melbouune, June 2, ' The intercolonial steamship owners feel that unless the disparity between the wages paid in tlio intercolonial trade and those in over-sea ships is lessened, they must lay up many of' their vessels to prevent them being run ati^oss-.'**^ The proposed new rates if adopted, will effeot a Baving to tho owners of £BO,OOO per annum, Tho owners propose to' pay seamen £5 per month; firemen, £1; trimmers, £6; cooks and Btewards, £B. June], Heavy rains bavo caused floods in Melbourne and the suburbs, and some of the, country districts. The railway lines are damaged, aod train communication with Port Melbourne is interrupted The town of Lilydalo is underwater. [Lilydale is 24 miles north-east of Melbourne, situated in an agricultural district, and has a population of about 4/JOO.J • The Cabinet has decided to exempt salaries of £IOO and under from the proposed 2J per cent, reduction, Pertu, June 1. The smallpox ia almost stamped "*- out The Jtorine Court has suspended for six ■pths the certificate of tho captain otithe barque Ulidia, wrecked near Bottnest Island. ■