FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2431, 9 February 1888, Page 2

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

I l)v Klkotiuc TeLKGH.U'H.— COI'VIUOHT.] LciNLX.X, February 4. \ pkittation of Irish landowners to-day waited on Lord Salisbury, asking that hey should receive from the Government some assurance of finality in the matter of Irish Land Legislation. They urged that under the present continual changes rliey suffered heavy losses, for which they claimed they should be recompensed I v the State. The deputation also com;>l lined bitterly of the working of the Loud Commission. The Premier replied that the deputation had his entire sympathy, ami promised that the Cabinet would fully consider their representations, aud make -iKjiiiry into the workings of the Commission. M. de Blowitz, the Times Paris correspondent, asserts that there are indications of the overthrow of the TVanl Cabinet, with the probability of the Fioquet party assuming the Government. An extremely rich goldlield lias been discovered on the banks of the Surinam '-iiver. Snriuaoi is a province of Dutch Guiana. Mr Arthur Cohen, Q. 0.. member tor Soiuhwark, has resigned his. seat in the House of Commons. Tlie M'iint Morgan (Queensland) appeal casus have been dismissed. The ;vunt in dispute involved tile possession of a mine, and the'r Lordships held that the alleged omission of formalities did not justify their annulling the loses, even at the iustance of the Crown. The lessees were not liable to ejectment, except at the suit of the lessor, and no sufficient ground had been alleged to exclude the holders from the miner's righr.. The land was, dc facto, occupied by virtue of the lease. Tne Countess of Kingston and Colonel O'Callaglian have arranged the rents of -heir Irish tenants so as to mitigate the Hardships and sufferings they are how labouiiug under. It is expected on the Stock Exchange that when the next loan is required by tfew South Wales the rate of interest will be fixed at three per cent. The iJlue Spur Mining Company (Otago) lis been registered with a capital of 0130.000. Paris. I'Vhrna'-y 4. In the haniber to-day, M. Cassagnao incused M. Fallieres, the Minister of Justice, of shielding M. Wilson, and tainted M. Floquet with insulting Russia. There was a great scene in tho Chamber in consequence of the accusations, M. rirard, Premier, insisting that the Chamber, having hy large majorities expressed confidence in him, should protect his Ministers from insult. Constantinoi'li-;, February 3.

Forty-one iusurgents have been arrested for entering Roumclia, with the object of instigating a revolt at Burges, a city which had recently been the scene of several serious disturbances. The plotters were arrested by order of the Turkish Government. Dublin, February 6. Tho ease in which two priests brought proceedings against Cardinal Moran to compel His Eminence to account for £"2000 which they allege he received for tho relief of poor priests in the Ossory parish came on to-day in the Rolls Court, and was dismissed by the Court. The miners a 1; Kiotiuo, a town in the interior of Spain, rioted <5n Saturday. The troops were called out to quell the disturbance, but the rioters assailed the military, and the latter fired into the