THE LATEST.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 4539, 15 May 1889, Page 2

THE LATEST.

(Per Electric Telegraph— Coftkight.) (Pbr Press Association.) (Reoeived 3.38 a.m., May 15th.) THE AORA.NGI. Rio Janeiro, May 12. Sailed— R.M.S. Aorangi, for London. THE SUGAR CONVENTION BILL. London, May 13. The Government have postponed the Sugar Convention Bill until Whitsuntide, and in the meantime have undertaken to consider its provisions. THE VICEROYALTY OF IRELAND. They have also agreed to consider the question of a royal Prince being appointed Viceroy of Ireland. ARISTOCRATIC GAMBLERS. In connection with the raid made on a fashionable baccarat club in Park Place, an attempt will be made to prove that Lords Dudley and Lurgan were only occasional visitors. It is asserted that Lord Dudley lost £5000 and Lord Lurgau £2000. The club in which baccarat is played has proved tho ruin of many young men of fashion, and young Benson, tho plunger, was ruinod there. Soaton, tho proprietor of this gaming snloon, is well known and is a noted gamester, and tho same may be Baid of Davis, an equally well known money lender, who supplied ready money to young men on poat obits. The raid by the police was made on the application of Lord Bateman, owing to the hoary losses of his son, tho Hon. Captain William Spencer Batoinan II an bury. THE NEGUS OF ABYSSINIA. Rome, May 13. The Italian Government will agree to recognise King Menolek ns Negus of Abyssinia, providing that the English Government is willing to do so. THE WESTPHALIAN COLLIERY STRIKE. Berlin, May 13. The Westphalia colliors stubbornly refuse to agree to the conditions of the masters, who aro willing to give an increase of wages, but tho mou hold out for the eight hours' system. Tho strike has resulted in a large number of furnaces at various works being extinguished. The Emperor William will receive a deputation from tho colliers in n day or two. The strike fovor is affecting artioans throughout Germany. DR CRONIN. Chu'aoo, May 13. Dr Cronin, who was reported to have beun murdered, has turned up safely in Toronto. He assorts that ho flod from here to avoid tho vongeadce of the Olan. nn-Gaul Society.