CABLE NEWS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 7335, 6 April 1895, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

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Lohboh, April 4. Mr Wilde admitted olosa intirnaoy with a number of young men, but denied anything improper in it. Ha paid ao regard to the y- social inferiority if hia friends wore amusing. Lord Douglas' letters showed that tie threatened to shoot his fatter if he attempted to thr_i»h him. The Matquia* letter referrod to an eminent Nt*tesman, but the reference waa political. Mr Wilde's case is closed. Mr Carson, in opening the defence, declared the plaintiff's proteges were among the moßt immoral persons in .Condon. Wilde's intimacies ware absolutely irreconoilable with hia claims as an exponent of culture. Hia literature alone justified the charges against him. In that conclusion he claimed that the defendant's witness, amongst whom was Wood, the chief blackmailer, would prove the case to the hilt. Apiil 5. Mr Ward delivered an informal address fo the colonial party in tho House of Oommons, and advocated preferential trade rates throughout the JSmpire, Imperial postage and Paoifio cab'e, providing the last-named is left to private enterprise. Five directors of the .Liberator Oompany have been oommitted for trial on charges of fraud and oonspiraoy. Heavy bail is imposed. Mr Buxton, in reply to a question, said it was unnecessary to consider the question of representation of the oolonies at the Monetary Conference until it was convened. Calcutta, April 5. The First Brigade h : is captured the , JBhakhot Pass- Another brigade is beiog ■«__epared for service in Ohitral. ?• Sydnbt, April 5. Another batch of immigrants sailed by the Wakatipu for New Australia. They •will join those already waiting in New Zealand. A letter received from Nurse Grace, one of those who clung to Lane, when his party loft the original settlement, states that the settlers have reached the bedrock, and have nos a farthing left. They had been without meat for a month, and all dther necessaries wero soaroe. They had nothing to live on but beans. They had no soap, and were forced to drink stagnant water in whioh they had previously bathed. Mr Casey, replying to the statements in this letter, says the people must make allowances for pardonable exaggerations on the part of Nurse Grace, also remembering that pioneering is necessarily attended ./hardship. He explained that Lane's settlement ia diatinot from the New Australia colony, and is glad to say there is a growing feeling amongst the members of the lattor that the interaeta of the whole movement would be beßt consulted by again oombining with Lane's party The original settlement has made steady progress lately, ana overcome the worst of the initial difficulties. It is thought the inolusion of Lane's followers would have a good moral effect all round, and be fully justified by results. Overtures will probably be made Bhortly to accomplish this The court martial acquitted Captain Olose of the charge of seduotion brousrht against him by the young woman Cummings, and also of suggesting an illegal operation, but held him guilty of traducing the woman's oharacter. The Executive, with whom the final deoision rested, reviewed the finding and upheld the Court with regard to the aoquittal, but squashed the finding of guilty. Captain Olose was therefore fully acquitted. Mklboubnb, April 5 Mr Dowie, oontraotor, is suing _ the Victorian Newspaper Company, whioh lately ow_9d the Herald, for alleged libel in connection wita the mysterious disappearance of documents from the Public works Department. Plaintiff was engaged in the Arbitration Department.