CABLE NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume VII, Issue 1311, 19 May 1886, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Telkgraph. — Rkuter's Copyright.

LONDON, May 17

The trial of Alderman Pacbne, a New York jeweller, charged with breaking into $20,000 worth of notes on tbe Broadway Railway Franchise, has been concluded. Pacbne was found guilty, bat sentence waR deferred.

Tbe Rev. Davenport Kelly is mentioned as Bishop Morehouse's successor.

The f.s. Aorangi arrived, all well, at 2 a.m. at Plymouth, yesterday. Her frozen meat cargo is in good condition.

Three hundred and fifty thousand Russian troops are being massed in tbe Crimea and Bessarabia.

French influence is being brought to induce the Spanish Government not to ratify the wine treaty with England.

Jardine Bros., Australian explorers, have been awarded tbe Murcbison medal.

Destructive cyclones are doing an immense amount of damage. They bave been experienced in Italy, Germany, and Austria.

May 18. The debate on the Home Bule Bill was

resumed in the House of Commons last night. Sir Richard Cross spoke at some length in opposition to th 6 bill, which he stated offered no prospect of legislature, nor of establishment of good government in the country. Mr. Stanfielcl expressed himself warmly in favor of the measure, wtiicli lie declared would smooth the way for federation and strengthen the union of Ireland with the British Empire.

The death is announced at the age of 71, of Sir Thomas Erskine May, late Clerk of the House of Commons.