CABLE NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume IX, Issue 1756, 17 October 1887, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Tklkqraph. — Beuter's Copyright.

LONDON, October 16. Mr. Joseph Chamberlain is prosecuting his anti-Home Eule campaign in Ireland with unabated vigor. He has been accorded enthusiastic receptions at Ballyrnena and Coleraine, addressing public meetings in those townsi Mr. Chamberlain urged his hearers strenuously to oppose Home Rule, pointing out that the repeal of the Union would briug inevitable ruin upon Ulster. Sir William W: Gull, the eminent physician, is reported to be suffering from a stroke of paralysis. The death is announced, at the age ot 61, of Mrs. Craik (Miss Mulocb), authoress of " John Halifax, gentleman," and other novels. It is announced that Sir Charles Tupper will represent the Canadian Government on the Fisheries Commission. The Admiralty have decided to replace H.M.S. Undine by a new gun boat of the Battles type and bad issued orders to H.M.S. Harrier andKattlesnake to prepare i to join the Australian squadron.

PAKIS, October 16. General Boulanger lias admitted making the statements imputed to him regarding the action of the Government in arranging with General Caffarel. M. Ferron, the

-Minister for War, has in consequence placed General^Bonlanger' .under close arrest for one month. The question of depriving him off bis command will he considered by the Cabinet later on.

ROME, October 16.

The first Italian expedition destined for service at iiassowah sails early in November. In* consequence of tbe increased hostile preparations by the Abysinians, it has been decided to despatch a second expedition to. Massowah and accordingly six thousand troops have reseived orders to prepare to follow shortly.

COPENHAGEN, October 16.

Her Royal Highness the Princess Maud Louise of Wales, who is on a visit to the King of Denmark, has been attacked by measles.

SYDNEY, October 14.

Much sympathy is expressed with Sir Henry Parkes in bis difficnltins; In tbe Assembly to-day, the Premier vindicated his position, and challenged a vote of tbe House of confidence or otherwise.

(special to united press association.) LONDON, October 13.

Messrs. Reid and Baird have sold to a syndicate tbe Monte Christo and Norton ■lines at Cooktown for £85,000. They have also registered the Queensport Brick and Tile Company, Brisbane, with a capital of £20,000.

Tbe Land Company of Australasia will be placed privately with a capital of .£140,000. Tbe directors n re— Colonel Tbynne, Messrs. Chas. Macban, William Enkstein, and Clement Ravenscroft.

A coroner's jury have found eleven bailiffs and Captain Hamilton, a land agent, guilty of the murder of Kinsella, who waß phot in an eviction riot at Weiford. It is expected that the Crown will enter a nolle prosequi in this and the Mitchelltown case.

LONDON, October 14.

Many enquiries are being made as to the conditions on which farmers and others may settle on the Chaffey Bros.' estate. The estate comprises some 250,000 acres in the vicinity of the Murray, and has been granted to Messrs. Chaffey by the Victorian Government for irrigation purposes, the licensees, on their part undertaking to expend £300,000 in twenty years on irrigation works, agriculture, horticulture, and the establishment ot a fruit preserving industry.

Mr. Chamberlain, speaking at Belfast, said he was willing to concede great extension of local self-government, but the distinct recognition of separate nationality would amount to absolute independence. The ties that bind England to her colonies leaeralion are merely temporary, and any attempt to make Ireland like Canada or New South Wales wouJd result in tbe creation of a separate kingdom, or perhaps a republic.

Lord Hartington publishes a letter in which be trusts that the Unionists, without reference to party feelings, will reunite with a view to maintain law and order in Ireland.

Prince Vorongoff writes to the Vienna Press that war between Germany and Russia is inevitable.