BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1671, 5 March 1890, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

Latest Cablegrams. Sir William V. Harcourt and Sir Charles Kussell, speaking at Bath and Cambridge respectively, claimed that the report of "The Times "-Parnell Commission acquitted Mr Parnell of every charge affecting his honour. The "Globe" strongly urges a subscription list to recoup "The Times." Several persons have offered subscriptions of £100. In the action, Sir Morell M'Kenzie v. Steinkoff, for alleging that plaintiff conspired to deny that the disease from which the late Emperor Frederick suffered was cancer, £2,500 damage has been awarded, and Sir Morell also recovers the sum of £1,500 front " The Times" for publishing the statement. New Zealand hemp is in poor demand— fair quality, £25 ; middling quality, £22. In a statement to the House of Commons Mr Cecil Eaikes shows that the weight of letters despatched to and received from Australia by way of Brindisi and Naples for 1889 was 111,0001 b, and by direct sea route 7,7001 b. The influenza, epidemic has broken out in Norfolk and Devon,and is spreading rapidly. Many cases are of a severe type, and numbers of the schools are closed. Mr Shepherd Allen, who is at present on a visit to the colonies, will be the Unionist candidate for Stoke-on-Trent constituency, a vacancy for which has arisen by Mr W. L. Bright resigning. Australian wheat (ex warehouse^, 39s and quiet ; New Zealand long-berried (ex store) 37s and quiet. Hundreds of infants have been murdered at Warsaw by criminals and their agents throughout the country. Father Kinsella, who was sentenced to two months imprisonment for building huts for evicted tenants, has been liberated owing to a technical error in the mode of bis arrest. The City of Berlin, on second ballots, elected four Radicals, who gained largely increased majorities. In the provinces the Socialists gained six additional seats, whilst the Cartel (or Ministerial party) lost On tbe day previous to the bursting of the dam at Prescott a messenger was despatched to warn the residents of Wickenburg that there was danger of such happening, but he got drunk on the way and forgot to deliver the message. The Portuguese National defence fund is expected to reach £1,000,000. During the past two days £80,000 were subscribed.

By the death of the Duke of Aosta, who has fallen a victim to the influenza epidemic, a career has been closed that at one time seemed of much promise. The younger son of Victor Emmanuel, King of Italy, first came into notice in 1870, when he was offered the Crown of Spain, which bad been vacant since the deposition of Queen Isabella. The selec* tion was due to Marshal Prim, the chief actor in the revolution of 1868, who, by a singular coincidence, died on the very day the young king landed in Spain, haying been wounded by an assassin. The King's reign, which promised to be brilliant, was brief and troubled. The Spanish dislike to foreigners was a serious obstacle to his success, and after about four years of troubled rule he grew sick of his position and sent' a message to the Cortes, announcing his abdication. The only incident of any interest in his career since then was his marriage a year or two ago to his own niece, the daughter of his sister (then Princess Clotilde) and Prince Napoleon. The marriage at the time caused something like a sensation owing to the relationship of the contracting parties, but foreigners, it appears, are not particular in these matters. His age at the time was 43, while that of the bride was 21.

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