CABLE NEWS.

Bay of Plenty Times, 28 August 1893, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

HOME AND FOREIGN. Womeus pet Idea London, August 25.— Two hundred md forty thousand Ulster women lave signed a petition against Home Rule. rrcnseudoufi flre At Chicago. New York, August 25.— 8y a fire in Chicago five blocks of buildings And coal and timber yards were destroyed. Five thousand people are homeless* The damage ia estimated at & million and a half dollars. Home Rule. London, August 27.— Closure was enforced en the debate on the motion to report on the Home Rule Bfflf aod 1 the motion was carried by a majority of 38. There was no scene. The remaining amendments were disposed of mostly without division. Morley's amendment, giving' power of appointment of the judges of the Supreme Court and County Courts to the Viceroy was carried by a majority of 38. The third reading of .the Bill has been set down for Wednesday next. It is stated that the Opposition will combat everything at the Autumn session in order to enforce a general election on the Home Rule issue alone* Seeue In the lobby, , London, August 27. — In the lobb? of the House of Commons, Macneif, M.P. for Donegal Bouth, caned and pulled the ears of Harry Furoiss the distinguished caricaturist, owing to a hideous caricature in Punch likening Macneil to a baboon. Cholera. London, August 28.— Cholera, hat appeared at Leerdam, South HoUafti, and a boy has died : from the disease in Hull. Cholera has appeared in the Newt, in Bhenish Prussia, 4 deaths are recorded. ■ There are seven opes ' in logland, all imported, ,-■■•■■ Cricket* ; f | Lohdoit, August 27.*r-fhe dcket match, England r. AttttroHaaeft fe* suited in a draw. « ■ ■ French l«9l««i. :. ' Pabis, August 27— Four Freßch warships have arrived at Kohsaniet to assist in enforcing the French claims in Siam. France demands the discharge of the Danish officers in the service of the Siamese Government, Native trouble lii South Africa, Capetown, Augu»{ 27*— King Lobeoguia, of MaUbelleUnd, has sent further defiant letters to Sir Hr £och and Mr Cecil abodes. J| . The King is greatly enraged an 4 declines the monthly subsidy or M trea^| with the Bluish or the Souls Africa .Chartered Co regar4ijppj^a» pensation until Mashonalaodiiai htft surrendered. 4 ji