SECOND EDITION

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XX, Issue 2321, 9 January 1893, Page 2

SECOND EDITION

CABLE NS'-FS.

ByExkotbio Telegbaph.— GopyaiGiir,'

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

LONDON, January 8. Mr. J. Morley, Chief Secretary for Ireland, replying to a deputation, said be hoped Parliament would sanction tbe oompulsory purchase of farms in the west of Ireland. To stay emigration by means of relief works had in the past proved to be false charity.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company pay a aividena of 10 per cent, and carry forward a Bam of £5600. Nothing ie placed to the reserve fond, the directors wishing to make lighter provision for possible contingencies, owing to depression in Australia.

Millidge, tbe late manager of tbe Mercantile Bank of Australia, who is being sent back to Melbourne, was eon. veyed to tbe docks in a special train. He ' declares be can prove tbe balance-sheet issued in Febrnary was oorrect.

The Liberals of Bangor, North Wales, insist that the disestablishment of the. Church of Wales shall take place before Home Bole.

Up to tbe present, 15 persons have been frozen to death in England and 41 persons drowned owing to accident!.

Miss Shaw, special correspondent of the London Times, now touring Australia in the interests of paper, in an article, coneiders the Queensland sugar industry a remunerative enterprise though the ad> vantage is hardly yet realised in the colony. She draws attention to the wealth of the cedar forests in tne northern portions of the colohy. Three "cotton warehouses along, with 11,000 bajes of cotton has been destroyed by fire in Liverpool: Two firemen lost their lives. The damage is estimated al *<sUU,UuO.

Dr. Graham has been committed for trial on a charge of giving false certificate* of death in connection with the victims of Neill, the Lambeth poisoner. The imports for the last quarter showa decrease of and exports •£ decrease of ,£68,000. Jn the imports for the year, there is a decrease Vn value of" and in exports of £2,018,000. Mr. C. T. Bitcbie, who was President of the Local Government Board ufefc late Government, will contest the wZZII T seat.

Mr. J. Spencer Balfoar, M.P., fats accepted the Cniltera Hundndg. NBWyOBK,Jtia«y7 Wallace Boss has challenged Hanlao or the winner of tha »» beUr.. tt Hoimer* of tbe world. % *

PARIS, January 8. Daring the course of the preliminary trial of the Panama Oanal directors, Franqueiille confronted Charles D Lweepe, Foncine, Oouttu, Bloudou, and Baihart, and a vehement hubbub ensued each giving the other lie. Nothing tangible transpired during the hearing. The Bub-oommittee report there was nothing illegal in the manner in which the Panama Oanal Co. organised the petition to Parliament booming their loans. U•" rtea tbat Blondon haß confessed to cashing cheques to the value of » "million francs from Baibasfa account, tat the latter denies the statements. " Toeneral fall has taken place on the / Bourae, and fear of fresh revelations is Vinereasing daily. The general belief » >: tb_t Baihatt is guilty ot the charge of having been bribed. In luture the police will attend all anarohist meetings held in Paris, fully empower«a to disperse gatherings. Pour Nihilists have been discovered here plotting againet the life of the Czar of BtaSßia ana have been expelled across the frontier. '