NEWS OF THE WORLD

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8663, 27 December 1889, Page 2

NEWS OF THE WORLD

CABLE MESSAGES. British and Foreign Telegrams By Electric Telegraph — United Press Association Copyright—Received 27J12189 . 9.30 a.m, GASMEN STRIKE. London, December 23. The gas strike is virtually at an end. Tho Union men have all been turned out add others have been engaged permanently in their place, and a month's supply of coal is on hand. PERVTANFNT STRIKE COMMITTEE. The London Chamber of Commerce is appointing a permanent Committee to adjudicate on the strikes. Cardinal Manning, ex-Lord Mayor Whitehead, and the present Lord Mayor are members. LA.TE CLUB SCANDAL. A summons has been issued against Mr Newton, solicitor, on a charge of being concerned in a conspiracy to defeat the ends of justice iv connection with the West End scandal. NEW TRIAL REFUSED TO O'BRIEN. The application for a new trial in Mr O'Brien's libel action against Lord Salisbury was refused. PARNELL JUSTIFIES AN IRISH REBELLION. Mr Parnell, speaking at Liverpool, justified Irish rebellion in the past. He said-Protestants in Ireland had nothing to fear from Catholics. ROYAL RUSSIAN MARRTAGE. St. Petersburg, December 23. The Emperor of Germany and his sister Princess Margaret will pay a visis to tho Russian capital in the summer. The report is revived that the Princess will be married to the Czarewitch in the autumn, but another version is that the latter will espouse the Princess of Hesse. AFFAIRS IN EGYPT. The Russian press exhort France to approve the Egyptian conversion scheme, to enable corvee to be abolished. CEDING OF WIDDIN TO AUSTRIA. Vienna, December 23. It is rumoured that Bulgaria has ceded Widdin, on the Danube, to Austria. KOSSUTH RESTORED HIS CITIZEN'S RIGHTS. Louis Kossuth, ex-Governor of Hungary, who lost his rights as a citizen of Hungary in 1879, has been reinstated. He asserts that war between Austria and Russia cannot be avoided, and hopes the former will not allow the right moment to pass. CRETE STILL DISTURBED. Athens, December 23. It is reported that atrocities in Crete still continue. BRAZILIAN REBELLION. Rio de Janiero, December 23. A Commission is engaged drafting a new Constitution for Brazil. Religious toleration and recognition of civil marriages have been decreed. The report that slave owners instigated the recent revolution is not true. AGITATION IN CUBA. Havanna, December 21. A Republican agitation is on foot in Cuba.