LATE CABLE.

Pahiatua Star and Eketahuna Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 367, 28 January 1890, Page 2

LATE CABLE.

London, January 2*2. The Hon. J. White's horses, Kirkbam and Narrellan. have bean entered for the Two Thousand Guineas, Grand I’rix of Pans, and the St. Lt-ger. Henry George has siartod for Australia vis San Fraucisco. Intluonza is decidedly abating in Europe. At a conference of the London Trades Council and other Operative Clubs, it was decided to urge the opening of tbs museums on Sundays. A gentleman offers to pay tho expense for one year. January 28. Mr Parnell’s action against The Times has been further postponed till February Brd. Ernest Benson, the " Jubilee Plunger," ha» been arrested at Nice, on a charge of forging a cheque for a thousand pounds. The New Zealand Ixmn and Mercantile Agency Company has declared a dividend of 10 per cent, and carried forward £20.000 to the reserve fuud, and brought forward £IBOO. January 24. In the course of an article on the Samoan Treaty, the Times says its adop. tion will secure to England only e fair field and no favour in Samoa. Fierce gales are raging in the southwest of England. Lord Brassey, speaking last night at Liverpool, said the tune would come when Australia would be asked to increase the contribntiou for the maintenance of the naval forces in Australian waters. He suggested tiiat a council of advice should be created, with colonial members, to consider foreign relations The first train crossed the Forth bridge to-day. The Morning Post says the day has departed when the colonies could be considered simply British iioesessions. One free people cannot be possessed by another, though tliey may be united bv political bonds. January 25. The barque Thorne, bound from Liver- ! pool to Adelaide, went ashore in the early morning iu Douglas Bay, Isle of Man, and became a total wreck. A life-boat put off from the shore and effected a rescue of sixteen of the crew and two passengers. New Zealand hemp is dull, aud prices are irregular. Latest quotations are from £2B 15s to .£'29. The Pall Mall Gazette states that the rejiort of Ihe I lines-Parnell Commission will be disclosed within a fortnight, and 1 that it will prove tantamount to a dismissal of the charges brought ngninst Parnell, on the ground that they were based on forgeries. The report will, it is stated, censure the leader# of ths Land League for their methods of promoting agitation in Ireland, and will condemn the truculence of the Irish national press. Bcnzon’s family offered to refund tho proceeds of the cheque stated to have been forged by Ernest Benzon, but so far all efforts to settle the matter have failed, and the "Jubilee Plunger" is still in custody. It is stated lie has admitted the forgery, alleging that he was ha.llv in de™ 1 of tl '® niouoy to pay a gambling Paris, January 28. d lie Leaders of the Boulangist party ara instituting an anti-Jewish campaign in France. * January 24. Edward Bothsehild and the Marquis of Degonny fought a duel to-day, in which the former was wounded. In the Chamber of Deputiee last night Boulanger called Deputy Martineau a traitor. M. Martineuu has sent Boulanger a challenge. New Tore, January 28. One man woe killed and another seriously injured by coming in contact with an electric light wire. Eight passenger trains were snowed up m Oregan, and the occupant* suffered severe privations, and several died of cold and hunger. By an explosion of natural gas at Columbus, Ohio, six persons were killed and 80 injured.