CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4480, 26 July 1893, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

British and Foreign ' London, July 28. During the discussion in the House of Common's .on the financial clauses of the Homo Rule Bill, Mr Joseph Chamberlain said that owing to Irish patriotism being a siokly plant, which. required watering Mr Gladstone liETfixed' Ireland's contribution under her taxable capaoity, The Duke of Devonshire will moye the rejection of th-V Home Bule Bill in the House of Lords. . , ' V we-Admiral Sir'M. Oalme-Sey.. mour has intimated to Bear-Admiral Markhain that, being incriminated in connection with the loss of H.M.S. Victoria, ho may wa;chJa&eridence adduced at the court-nyflMri' Nearly half a million miners will" cease work oa Friday. The naval manoeuvres are proceed' , ing off the Irish Coast.: •:•■ 't A torpedo-.boat, attempting to' cross the bows of a Bohobner,.,.cam«i. :; intd collision'with her, and was nearly sunk. Other casualties are'reported. "Brussels, July, 24. Adam Wirtb, a noted thief, at present undergoing a term of imprison- . ment in Louvain Gaol, has confessed to the theft of Gainsborough's oelf.» brated "Duchess, of Devonshire" picture. ■. : ' : .'. ~. Wirth is now believed to have ken concerned in the late Hatton Garden and Post Offices robberies in London, and is also oredited • with \having oommitte'd many audacious bank, jewellery, aud other robberies on the ■ Continent, in America, and at Cape- ! town, which have baffled the'efforlß of the police to bring'tbe offender to justice. The pioture was;stolen for

the saks of ransom however, the thief was unSfee to olaini. Its whereabouts is unknown, "■' t Conswntinopm, July 24.. Painful details are. published of tho tortures to which American prisoners were subjected by the Turkish authorities. A number of them were beaten ; airaost to a jelly, while others were scwred with hot irons. ; ' St. Petersburg, July 21 The: Government is urging the Siamese Government to cede to | Russia the island of ■■. Junkseylon, situated off the western coast of the

Malay Peninsula, for the "establishment of a naval depot.. •:' •;' Twelve arrests, have been made at Khartoo of persons charged with plotting to bring about theannexation of Ukraine Bussia by Austria, Amongst those arrested were some female students.: : Paris, July 24. The President has remitted a year of the seatence of Blondin, one of the Panama convicts. ; Singapore, June 24. Information has been received here that a number of Chinese passengers on board a Dutch trader pirated the vessel, killing the English officers and 22 of the crew. -.,- Fifteen other members of the crew were injured,