LATE CABLE NEWS

New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 8521, 30 October 1888, Page 5

LATE CABLE NEWS

By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.

(per press association.)

(Received October 30, 12.50 a.m.) ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, October 20. The Admiralty propose to_ build four new ironclads and s;x cruisers. The coal owners in Yorkshire and Derbyshire resist the demands of the miners for an advance of wages. The South Wales collieries have conceded an advance of 10 per cent to the men. The syndicate of the copper companies have signed an agreement extending tho existing contracts for ten years. £7 00,000 in gold from outside markets and Faria have been shipped to Russia.

October 22

The beetroot manufacturers of Saxony have passed a resolution condemning tho Sugar Bounties Convention.

Paris, October 22

A heavy landslip on the NaplesBrindisi line of railway buried an excursion train. Ninety passengers were hilled and 50 injured.

(Received October 30,1.30 a.m.) London, October 21,

The Lancashire miners having refused to arbitrate, the owners have yielded to their demands. Mr Balfour, Chief Secretary for Ireland, is visiting Dublin, where he is protected by aa unusually strong escort.

The mission of Mr H. M. Durand, Foreign Secretary to the Government of India, to Afghanistan, has been abandoned.

The Emperor of Annam has ceded to the French the provinces of Hanoi, Haiphong and Touran. The Earl of Dufferin has been created a Marquis.

(Received October 30, 2 a.m.)

Paets, October 22,

The Imperial German coat - ofarms, at the German Consulate at Havre, have been defaced, and considerable ill-feeling has been aroused in consequence of the act M. Goblet, Minister of Foieign Affairs, has, however, aoologised to the German Minister for the outrage. October 23.

The Government propose to introduce a Bill providing for an income tax.

M. Freycinet, Minister of War, has informed the Budget Committee that one milliard francs will be required for the defence of the eastern frontier.

Washington, October 21

Congress was prorogued to-day. A measure has been passed excluding all Chinese labourers from the States, whether merely intending to pass through the country or otherwise.

London, October 22,

Lords Brownlow and Pembroke are mentioned in connection with the succession to the Governorship of New South Wales.

Six hundred thousand pounds of the Bank of New Zealand’s new capital has been subaciibed.

(Received October 30, 1.30 a.m.) THE TIMES-PAENELL CASE, London - , October 21,

Sir R. E. Webster, Q.C , AttorneyGeneral, in opening the case before The Times-Parnell Commission, promised that he would supply the amplest evidence respecting what are (mown as the forged letters, and would indicate the sources from which the Commission would be able to elicit evidence as to the general charges. Referring lo ParneU’s utterances in America, ho said they were distinctly seditious, and it would bo ehown that the expenses ofhist iur wore paid by the League. The learned gentleman concluded by citing numerous murders which had followed upon the strong speeches made by the members of the League inciting the people to acts of outx’age. (Received October 30, 2am.)

Lokdon, October 23

In a speech at the opening of the Titnes-Paruell Commission xmeterday, Sirß. E. Webster asserted that Pore cabled to Egan to prompt Parnell to issue the ' no rent manifesto from Kilmainhamgaol,and thatEganagreed, stating that this was the only weapon they had left. The Attorney-General commented on the failure to produce the League’s books of 1880 and ISSI. He propped to prove that the Central League paid its branches to carry out the boycotting system and to commit outrages. Re acquitted Davitt of being concerned in the agrarian outrages of 1881 and 1882 Egan’s letter to James Carey, suggesting

that the latter should set to work forthwith, was found in Carey’s house. Referring to the Parnell letters, the Attorney-General said they bad been purchased by The Times newspaper, and after the fullest test had satisfied the proprietors of that paper that they were written by Parnell and were genuine.

(Received October 29, 10.30 p.m.) A STABBING CASK. Sydney, October 20. A man named Cloghorn has been arrested at Broken Hill, charged with the murder of Ernest Fielder, whom he stabbed recently.