NEWS BY CABLE.

Opunake Times, Volume IV, Issue 180, 26 May 1896, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

CORONATION OF THE CZAR. Rome, May 21.

Cypher telegrams from Moscow received in Milan report that a bomb factory has been discovered under a street through which the coronation procession is to pass. Seditions manifestos were scattered in the stivcts. A number of workmen in the Kremlin have b.en arrested.

St. Petersburg, May 22.

The French special embassy to the coronation of the Czar at Moscow has been decorated with military honors. May 23.

The procession at the coronation of the Czar was a gorgeous pagnet. The Czar, mounted on a white charger, marched alone, followed by a cavalcade of Eastern and European princes, Czarina, and nobility. Two hundred thousand troops guarded the route from the Petrousky palace to the Kremlin. , Boundless enthusiasm was displayed by the populace. THE TRANSVAAL. London, May 21. ' The sentences of the four leaders of the Johannesburg revolt have been commuted to fifteen years’ imprisonment, but it is hoped this will be further modified.

The Times denounces the punishment as rigorous and excessive, and the refusal to the reformer’s petition for clemency must delay other revision.

Capetown, May 22.

Eight of the Reform Committee in the Transvaal have been discharged, four have received a year’s imprisonment, nineteen received three months, eighteen have been directed to re-peti-tion in five months, and four for refusing to petition had their sentences maintained. All the fines imposed are to be enforced, but banishment from the country is suspended if prisoners agree not to engage in politics. Sir Hercules Robinson wires that the sentences passed on Col. Rhodes, Phillips, Hammond and Farrar, principal members of the Reform Committee, are a matter of form, and will be revised in a week.

FISHERY RIOTS.

London, May 22.

Cornish fishermen continue to molest the boats from Lowestoft, and troops had to interrene to preserve order.

May 23.

Rioting in Penzance over a fishery dispute has been renewed, and the harbor master has been among those assaulted. Two gunboats have been sent there to assist in preserving peace and the military hold the town.

DAIRY QUESTION IN VICTORIA Melbourne, May 23.

The Dairying Conference is much dissatisfied at, and is protesting to the Government agaist the appointment of a New Zealand dairy expert on the grounds that the climate of the two colonies is different and that it would be three years before the New Zealander understood the climatic conditions sufficiently to give practical advice.

LATE SIR H, PARKES.

Sydney, May 23

In the Assembly Mr Reid moved to place on record the deep sense of great loss the colony sustained by the death of Sir H. Parkes. Members in all parts of the House eulogised his services. In reply to the statements that Lady Parkes and family were in great straits, even without the necessaries of life. Mr Reid said that ever since the beginning of his illness the Government had supplied every* need of the family, and were still doing so. Besides making permanent provision for the family the Government intended to ask Parliament to vote £IOOO to give Lady Parkes a comfortable homo.