CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4565, 24 August 1893, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

British and Foreign,

London, August 22. Mr Chamberlain's amendment to the proposal to apply tho closure to the report stage of the Home Eulo Bill, was reacted by 201 to 162. The Premier's motion was then carried without a division,

Mr Chamberlain said th? aotionof the Government wa3 unprecedented, and it was impossible to rely any longer upon ths sense of equity or honor of a majority due to tho votes of priests, moonlighters andilliteratea whom the Parnell Commission had covicted of a conspiracy to destroy the Kingdom, Tho Premier. replied that the motion was intended to secure the. liberty and efficiency ofjarliamentary discussion. '^t

In moving the application ol tho closure, the Premier pointed ont that the House had already spent li days upon the Homo Rule Bill, which waß more than doublo tho time any important Constitutional measure had over occupiod. It was tho duty of the Government to prevent the Conservative Party paralysing Parliament.

It is expected that Mr Macarthut will be elected chairman of the Australian party in the House of Commons.

The ballot of Aberdare miners favours tho resumption of work. Many vessels nro kirk, and tho numbe^wlmksing, Tho iron, other works aro, closed owing to the'laok of ooal, ■■■.■;■

Labour members in the Houba of Commons strongly protest against the despatch of troops to Wales. Paris, August 58. Tie Premier bus expressed the regret of his Government to Italy for the outrage, at Nismee.

Rome, August 21. The Italians renewed thoir agitation against the French, and tried to seize their Embassies both to the King and to the Pope The attempt ™W trated by soldiers.

August 22. The Italian Government Lave snspended the {[,„ chief of police, for failing to*protect the Jkench embassy properly, Eenewed riots ovor the treatment oftbeltalian miners atNismes continue in Turin, Milan, Genoa, and Borne, and French reßidentshave been. attacked,

Traffic has beeiii(|jp P ea in many etreets and military cordons placed round the French consulates to protect life and property. , Pabis, August 22. A Iran red ana fifty-fivo Mote will be taken on September utH tiemie m iwtoH but MM.OlemenceauandDaCassagnao . willbawto await a second ballot. ,:■■ ito flight has suffered a oomplete -.' defeat, as also have the Boulangists' and the men who sought to make' capital out of the Panama scandal. ' Among the latter was M.Delahaye, Whofiret brought the ohargea of corruption before the Chamber, - a* \

The Comte dfi Mun defeated M Bouvier. MM, Debacle, Bourgeois and Wilson, ex-President Grovy'i so«Mn-Uw, wore elected. Then- is littlo excitement ovoc th( elections. Tho Republicans have gainod 6! scats and lost nonc,whilo tho Royalist: hnvo lost 50. Sixteen Socialist have been returned. Loon Say has been returned foi Bordeaux, Notwithstanding the recent public clamour, the majority of those involved in tho Panama scandal suetheir re-olectiou, Sydney, August 22. Montcfioro and Josephs; ono o( the leading firms of importers and shipping rnjents, have suspended payment, Particulars are not yet available. Washington, August 22, Mr Wilson, Chairman of tho Com' mitteo of Ways and Means, is drafting a Bill providing for the repeal of the McKinley Act, and replacing it wiljttn entirely revised tariff, ifflfenancial crisis is passing, and many of tho large works are roauming operations. The Secretary to tho Treasury states that it would cost 113,000,000 dollars to re-coin tho currency at tne proposed ration of 20 to 1. Supporters of aiker are unable to reply to this statement. London, August 21, Mr Black is visiting Scotland to promote tho Queensland meat trade. He will travel through Franco and Germany later on upon the same errand. Melbourne, August 28. The Solichor-Uenerul has written to Magistrate Panton, censuring his action with icgard to the Mercantile Bank cases. The Premier in reply to a question in tho Legislative Assembly eaid that when new contracts fcr the carriage of mails between England and the Colony come under review, tho Government intecd to stipulate for a servico umjXpSO days.