CABLE NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume X, Issue 1835, 23 January 1888, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

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(PEE UNITED PBESS ASSOCIATION). LONDON, January 21. Alexander Blame, member for South Armagh, and Father Maofadden have been arrested for speeches made at Gweedore, County Donegal, in support of the plan of campaign. Mr. W. O'Brien, M.P., has been released from gaol. Dr. Moorhou6e, Bishop of Manchester, preaches at Cambridge on Sunday next on the subiectof church extension throughout the Australasian colonies. The licenses of the jockeys Wood and Barrett have been cancelled for unfair riding.

ROME, January 19.

Bisbop Moore, of Ballarat, has had a second private audience with His HolineßS the Pope, and presented an address to His Holiness from the Roman Catholic hierarchy of Australia. In acknowledging it, His Holiness made minute enquiries respecting the Catholics in tbe colonies, and expressed an opinion that tbe advancement was due to self-government.

[Eeceived January 23, 2 a.m.]

LONDON, January 21.

The P. and O. Company have arranged to sign the new mail contract on Monday.

The report that Rear-Admiral Tryon was to succeed Lord Chas. Beresford as Junior Lord of the Admiralty is denied.

SYDNEY, Jannary 23.

The tug steamer which was despatched to search lor tbe missing boat of the American ship J. T. Berry, burnt at sea, has returned without finding a trace of the ill-fated mariners. A minute Bearch was made o( Lord Howe Island without success, and, as the weather has been fine there for some time past, it is considered that the boat has not been in that vicinity, as a landing could easily have been effected. It is now thought that those missing must have perished, unless tbey had the good fortune to fall in with a passing vessel.

PERTH (W.A.), January 22. Information has been received here that the dispute between Sir Frederick Napier Broome, Governor of the colony, and the Hon. A. C. Onslow, Chief Justice, has been referred to a committee of the Privy Council.

News received from Kimberley gives glowing accounts of rich finds there.

(SPECIAL TO PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

LONDON, January 19.

The Duke of Argyle, in a speech, described the letters written by the Hon. John Bright on the new Conservative policy as the production of a masculine mind and honest heart disgusted with lanaticism and insincerity.

The press generally approves of the sentences passed on tbe Socialists who were engaged in the Trafalgar Squaree riots.

Sir E. G Clark, Solicitor-General speaking at Birmingham, advocated the abolition of the distinction existing between Queen's counsel and solicitor.

PARIS, January 19.

A disgraceful disturbance is reported from Rouen. During a service in the cathedral, the abbe was frequently interrupted by people asking him questions, and by the singing of songs. The disturbance rapidly developed into a riot of so serious a nature that the police and military had to be called in to quell it. A number of arrests were effected and peace restored.

BERLIN, January 19.

Prince Heinrich, second son of the Crown Prince, is to be married in May to the Princess Irene, daughter of the Grand Duke Ludwig of Hesse, and granddaughter of Queen Victoria.

VIENNA, January 18. The recent utterances of the Czar are distrusted here.

St. PETERSBURG, January 19.

Tbe Czar will remain in this city till after the Emancipation Carnival in March.

It is stated that the police are of opinion that the recent plot against the Czar was not of Nihilist origin.

The massing of large bodies of troops in Galicia still continues, and much sickness prevails among them.

LONDON, January 19.

The Jockey Club, having considered the complaints made against the jockeys Wood and Barrett, have cancelled their licenses.

The reason for the resignation of Lord Charles Beresford is that he objected to the Government disagreeing to reduce the vote for the Intelligence Department oi the Navy. Lord Salisbury, after consi* dering the matter, accepted the resignation.