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Waikato Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2775, 26 April 1890, Page 3

CABLE SUMMARY.

(BY ELECTRIC TELKffRAPH. —COPYRIGHT.) V '-London, April 24. Sir J. McKenna, vice-president of ....thajlrisbi National League, has restating that the[? League no longer exists, and that American members will not submit to the leadership of assassins. The American League has written to Mr Dillon, requesting him to induce Mr Parnell to give his consents to a convention being summoned, otherwise it is feared the movement :will. .decay. . In the course, of an interview today! Mrs Dillon; one of the Irish to Australia, said that the cblo'niesj' knowing the benefits of autd'nomfv sympathised '\fith Ireland in her endeavour to obtain a Similar privilege. He further mentioned that Imperial Federation was more talked of in Great Britain . " than in- the colonies, .• Mr Michael Davitt disapproves of Mr Parnell's scheme for dealing with Irish lands, and it finds no farour with: the Home Rule Press. The Liverpool dockers have requested Mr T. P. O'Connor, M.P., to resign, alleging that he has shown want of sympathy with the '■ ■tMKers.''*^' Mr EobertG-iffen, the statistician and financial authority, informs the colonising committee of the House of ; the immense; emischeme propounded for Australia is purely visionary. The Western Australian Enabling Bill Committee consider it useless to discuss the question of granting ie3pbnsib]§ government/to that » colony untirParliament has adopted the principle.,, Mr John Morley concurred' in this opinion, and Sir George Campbell dissented. Speaking at Bradford to-day, Mr Cecil Raikes,: Postmaster-General, stated that three .years ago he earnestly desired! to make some reduction in the colonial postal rates, as now proposed by Mr Goschen. The Australian cricket team having been delayed at Gibraltar, • owing to thd collision:of the steamer, Liguria, played; and defeated a local sixteen. Ten cafe9-"bf ®*ew Zealand apples ex Oceana sold at eight shillings, he'pears by> spime* steamer were Li unfbrxUnrftely rotten, i ,1 i ;; A appeal against the the Pelican Club, which exp^lle<|-Jhini |or>the,part'>he took in confeotjioii the" 5 Smith-Slavin ° J, * April 23. Ojt' receipt of the news that the Portuguese had evacuated the Shire districti-the populace here became verjr excited and furious, but there waa,no disturbance. a' *■ ■ New YJork, April 24. The trial of O'Donovan Rossa, f*r libelling Patrick Cassidy has conyiericed Kere.' Rossa declares

that Cassidy is a British spy, }] ('-. , / )\, ) s Yalenoia,' April 23. The Eussian Ambassador here has complained to the Government of the attacks made on the Czar by • the. anarchists, and also of their denouncing the treatment of prisoners at Siberia., ... ... < ; Sr pKTERSBmio, April 23. Sohmidt, the officer who is alleged to have betrayed the plans of Croustadt, to Plessen, the German military attache, has been shot. He asserted he .was innocent, and had b&en instructed to entrap the German attache. ; i , * ' " : Paris, April 23. The French claim to have' de- •: feated the Dahomans in the recent engagement, and state- the latter lost 500 killed. " • ; The goldfields of Madagascar are i >' to be thrown open to all comers, on condition that miners pay the State , a loyally of 27 grammes of gold.

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