LATE NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2423, 21 January 1888, Page 2

LATE NEWS.

UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. [13V EIECTLUU TELEGRAPH.— COPYKIUHT.I London, January IS. tint CIIUiUSS DiLKK lias privately stated that France will only evacuate the New Hebrides on condition that she is allowed a hand in Egyptian affairs. Mr Thomas Brady takes a shipment of salmon to Tasmania, and will pay a visit to New Zoaland. The trial of Mr Tt. G. Uralinin, M.1 , . for North-west Lanarkshire and liurns, the Socialist leader, tor making 'me of seditious lungnaga at a meeting in Trafalgar Square cm Novomhor 13th, has boon concluded, and each of the accused were sentenced to nix weeks without bard labour. Mr W. J. Lane, M.P. for Hast Cork, has been sentenced to one month's imprisonment on a charge- of intimidation. Lord Charles has resigned his position as a Lord of the Admiralty. The liaotist Union has accepted the resignation of the Rev. Mr Spurgeon, Baron U. tie Worms has had a successful interview with the French statesmen relative to the sugar bounties. He proceeds to Brussels and Berlin. Sir M. Hicks-Beach has retired from the Cabinet. Lord Lytton's first reception iu l'aris was a ttrillaiit success. The Italian troops are ordered to await the assault on the ontposis at Massowah, and are strongly entrenched. (>l..i>ioow, January 18. The eleven crofters arrested last week at Lewis liavo been acquitted, despite the declaration of the judge that such a verdict would tend to have a bad effect on society. The verdict has created a great deal of amazement. The. ernftnrs threaten to clear the deer out of all the forests in Lewis. ______^______