CABLE NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume X, Issue 1916, 28 April 1888, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, April 26. The shipping ring admit the grievances complained of by shippers, but state that at present they are unable to comply with the demands of the latter owing to contracts under which the ring is already bound and must fulfil. BELGRADE, April 25. King Milan of Servia has removed Colonel Sava Gronitch from his position as head of the Government. COOKTOWN, April 27. H.M.S. Lizard, which struck a reef to the northward of here on "Wednesday morning, has been floated off without sustaining any injury, and has returned to port. LONDON, April 26. Jake Kilrain offers to present Lees, of Australia, with if the latter will box him for .£IOOO, the former to use three ounce and Lees one ounce gloves. SYDNEY, April 27. Mr. Haynes has declined to receive the amount paid into court by Mr. Fletcher in satisfaction of the claim for damages for assault in the Legislative Assembly, and the case will shortly be heard in the Supreme Court. MELBOURNE, Aprils. A miner fossicking afr Wedderburn, a mining town, situate on Korong creek, 146 miles north-west of here, unearthed a nugget weighing 540z. MELBOURNE, April 27. A prospectus has been issued of a new bank called the Royal Bank of Australasia, with a capital of £360,000. At a public meeting to-day, resolutions were carried arging the Legislature to pass, without delay, a bill providing for the franchise of women. (special to united press association.) LONDON, April 24. A serious outbreak of pleuro- pneumonia in Ireland and also in Kent is reported. In order to prevent the spread of the disease, over a thousand head of cattle have been destroyed. LONDON, April 25. In the House of Commons, Mr. Justin McCarthy, M.P. for Londonderry, tabled a motion condeming the increase of sentences recently imposed by the Appeal Court on Irish subjects. Sir "W. Harcourt, speaking on the question, said that the machinery of the Appeal Court was simply an engine of brutal and ferocious oppression, and it was useless for the the Government to assume ignorance of what was taking place in connection with the affairs in Ireland. Mr. Baltour, Secretary for Ireland, denied that there had boen any interference by the Executive Council with his administration. Mr. Gladstone said the Government were responsible for the introduction of the foul and odious inequality and enforcement of law in Ireland, for which there was no precedent, and he asserted that the appeal courts had been cruelly and wantonly used against those in custody. The motion was lost. PARIS, April 24. The Government intend to ask the Chamber of Deputies to vote a sum of fifty-two million francs in aid of the defences of Brest, Cherbourg, Toulon, and Cambray. M. de Freycinet has stated that it is the intention of France to have a million of men stationed on the frontier, aud another million in the interior, and also that it is proposed to extend the term under which the men will serve to 25 j'ears. VIENNA, April 24. The Pesther Lloyd considers that Russia will gradually undermine the whole of Eastern Europe, and incite the populace to sedition. The Normaaby people should note that this is the last night of the Drapery Sale, near the Bank, Normanby. Big bargains for all !— Advt. " Buchu-Paiba." — Quick, complete cure, all annoying Kidney, Bladder, and Urinary Diseases. At chemists and druggists. Kempthorne, Prosser, and Co., agents, Wellington. y 1 " Rough on Eats." — Clears out rats, mice, roaches, flies, ants, beetles, gophers, jack-rabbita, insects, skunks, bed-bugs, sparrows. At chemists and druggists. 1 >