GABLE HEWS.

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 20902, 21 May 1887, Page 2

GABLE HEWS.

HOME AND FOREIGII. Per Electric T l ".graph Coppright. The Crimes Bill. MORE PLOTS AGAINST THE CZAR. MR Q’BRIEN IN CANADA. HONORS TO CIVIC MAGNATES THE ENGLISH AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. THE AFGHAN FRONTIER COMMISSION, Reuter’s Telegrams. London, May 19. Notices hat e been given of fully a hundred amendments to the second clause of the Irish Crimes Bill.

Owing to the resignation of Mr Borlase, a Gladstonite Liberal, a Parliamentary election for the Saint Austell division of Cornwall took place to-day when Sir "William M‘Arthur, Conservative defeated his liberal opponent by a majority of 211 votes. Later. M‘Arthur was elected to the Commons in the Liberal and not Conservative interest as telegraphed. It is announced that a baronetcy lias been conferred on Alderman Sir ItobertGardon, and knighthoods upon Alderman Henry A. Isaacs and Lieut-Colonel Alfred Kirby, sheriffs of London. The Post Office authorities have forwarded to Peninsular, Oriental and Orient Companion a final offer in connection with the proposed new contract for the carriage of the mails between England and Australia. It is expected that the companies will accept these pro postils. St Petersburg, May 18. 1 It is reported that at Nova leherkask into which town the 1

Czar and royal familymade a state entry today twenty four persons have been arrested for implication in a plot to assassinate the Czar,

The Anglo-Russian commission, which recently adjourned for the purpose of referring certain dis puted points to their "Government*, reassembles hero next week. Ottawa, May IS. A serious disturbance took place at Toronto to night when Mr O’Brien, the Irish Nationalist, leader, while attempting to address an open air meeting was stoned by the mob and was compelled to lly for his life. He succeeded in escaping though the crowd smashed the windows of the shop in which it was believed he had taken refuge. It is feared that rioting will be renewed tomorrow.