LATEST FOREIGN NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume xxx, Issue 2424, 24 January 1888, Page 2

LATEST FOREIGN NEWS.

UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. (By EiiKcritic Telegraph—Copyright), Loxeon, January 21. Nationalist members speaking at Tiillamorc md Dublin, deslared that Mr A. J. Balfour, Irish Secretary intended to murder the leaders of the League by impris jnment. Messrs P. O'Brien and Monaghaa have been arrested on a charge of iuciting a crowd to rioting. Mr Bi:me, the member far Armagh South, and Father McFadden, of Gweedore, have been arrested for advocating the Plan of Campaign. Mr O'Brien has been released from gaol. The consular dispute at Florence has been settled, and both the magistrate and the French consul have been censured. M. Tirard,thc French Premier, refuses to sanction the Panama Canal lottery. Wood and Barrett, the jockeys, had their licenses cancelled for unfair ridin S* The report that Rear-Admiral 'lryon was to succeed Lord Charles Beresfoni as Jniiior Lord of the Admiralty is denied. More private audiences have been had with the Pope. On being presented with an address from the Australian hierachy, His Holiness minutely inquired respecting the Catholics in the colonies, their material progress, and self-government. Bishop Moorhonso preaches the Ramsden sermon at Cambridge, his siibj ct being "Church Extension in the Colonies." Four thousand men were engaged building a breakwater on the River Hoangho which recently caused such a terrible disaster, when the waters broke through, and engulphed them all. There is a revival of the national movement in Poland.