CABLE NEWS. HOME AND FOREIGN.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XX, Issue 2847, 27 June 1892, Page 2

CABLE NEWS. HOME AND FOREIGN.

A royal commander. London, June 24,-rTho Duke of York .Jj&jj bf en appointed. Commander of H M.S. Melampus. Attack on Healy London, June 2i.—A crowd chased Healy through the streets of Dublin yelling' Dirty Healy' he was cruelty handled before he escaped. Stanley naturalised London, June 24. —Stanley has declared that he was naturalised in May but the legality is doubted, The poisouing cases. London, June 26. —At the inquest on the body of the girl Clover, oue of the Lambeth poisoning victims, the fiancee of Neil, ia custody on a charge of having committed the crimes, admitted having assisted writing the threatening letter signed * Murray,' and which involved Dr Harper, but states that at the time she was ignorant of Neil's object. It is reported that Neil purchased a quantity of Btrychnine in Canada • prior to the murders. Unionist Convention. London, June 16. —5,000 delegates attended the Unionist Convention in Dublin, representing Leiosfcer, Munster and Co<nnaught. Mo ions' were passed based on lines the same as tboae adopted by the Belfast Convention.

Gladstone aud Scotch Home Killers London, June 26 . — The Scotch Home Rule Association has seceded from favouring Gladstone on the grounds that his Midlothian manifesto ignores Scotland, and his Irish policy is pregnant with danger to the sister countries.

Gladstone attacked by a woman. Loxnox, June 26. —While Mr Gladstone was addressing a meeting at Chester, a woman threw a piece of bread, wounding him in tbe eye and causing abrasion of the corner. The wound bled freely and caused much paia* Bank to be wound up. London, June 26. — The Judge of the Queen's Bench division has made order for the compulsory winding up of the Mercantile Bank of Australia. Failure of* the IV Z. athletes. London, June 26.— The New Zealand team made a poor show at Orewe Amateur Athletic meeting yesterday. Wood ran second in the quarter mile handicap, but the others failed to gain a place in the other events. The Oriental Bank. London, June 26. — The depositors in the New Oriental Bank have decided on voluntary liquidation. Pestilence and famine. St Peteesbuiig, June 2s.— Cholera is raging in Samarcand audit is feared that it will spread into the famine Btricken districts in Russia. The harvest prospects in the greater i part of European Russia are very doubtful and in many districts the expectancy of even a small yield is hopeless. Fatal effects of water drinking. Paris, June 24.— -Three men "engaged in a water drinking contest at Arpenteuil they succeeded in swallowing twelve, nine, and seven quarts respectively, and all died shortly afterwards. ISisinarck as a prophet. Berlin, June 25. — Prince Bismarck received, a great ovation at Munich notwithstanding that it was 2 o'clock in the morning when he reached there. Pabis, June 2t>.— The Anarchist friends of Ravachol, now condemned to death fjv murder, failed in ao attempt to kidnap Dieble^ the executioner.

Attempt to kidnap an execu- \ tioiier. ! Vienna, June 25.— During an . interview while on a visit here, Prince Bismarck stated that war between ■ France and Germany was ultimately 1 inevitable. It only needs some man to cause '. the necessary effervescence. He declared Germany had not the slightest interest in Bussia, while Austrian interests were best served by a closer union between Russia and Germany. Disastrous landslip Rome, June 25.— 8y a landslip at Montesa, in Italy, 30 people were killed and injured.