CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1829, 7 May 1886, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

THE LILKE-OEAWFOED SCANDAL. EIGHT HOURS’ AGITATION IN THE STATES. FATAL BIOT AT CHICAGO DISTURBANCES AT OTHER CENTRES. THE BALKAN EMBBOGLIO. IRISH REFORM DISCUSSED IN CANADA. Charles Dilke has addressed a crowded meeting; at Chelsea, at which he stated that he was prepared to deny on oath all the allegations made against him m the recent diveroe ease, and to defray the coat of the Queen’s Proctor’s intervention. One hundred and fifty oases of YiotoHan fruit hare been sold. The prices realised were—apples, Id par 1 pears, eac “' The shipment of grape, are just I Mmtijiißiilli’Mrt,, and it t, expected that the diplomatic representative# of the several Powers wilt embark to-day. The Turkish forces are mutinously demanding that an advance on the Greeks should bs made. Mr Gladstone informed the House of Commons today that the time slowed by the Power, for an answer Irom Greece to their ultimatum regarding disarmament had expired, and that no definite reply hadtbeeu received. Mr Gladstone added that the previous rcpl T was inadequate and unsal isfactory.

Suu‘„ n : f^ d rr[ly RoUmPll “ W **** *’ Nelson, the New South Wales oarsman, will probably receive the Royal Humane Society’s medal far courageously caruig a boy from drowning. The question of Home Rule for discussion in the Canadian Parliament.

Advices from the frontier state tUt'fhs emaaßln ß> l ‘ large numbers in the vicinity of T , , . , , . , Naw Voas. May 4 Th,e labeling classes m the United States have commeuocJ an agitation for the initiation of the eight hours movement, andstnkes extending over a widespread area have resulted m consequence. At Chicago a serious riot took place yeslordae M suiting m the loss of several li res. It is hlWe/’ililr the outbreak was instigated by a for“icn T. , organisation. Disturbances olumoro nature arc reported from several industrial centres, MR GLADSTONE'S IRISH REFORM SCHEME. ! TDEPORT OF THE MIDLOTHIAN MANIFESTO. A DISSOLUTION PROBABLE. Mr Gladstone’s manifesto to the was he icsult ofLordllartingtoi.'s and Mr Oo«W. ■ cotliah crusade Iho mannesto virtually abandons the Land Purchase scheme, while n concedes the principle of Home Rule, The opniion in Scoi land ami Wales seems lavorable to the retemion of Irish renroseutativesat Westminster. The amendments hiuted 1 u v bh,v °‘ 'J if'!. 1 1,r0,,,iM r iris SUtid ,oat il tho secotul reading of the Land I urchase Ihll is carried ay only a narrow majority a dissolution vijltuko place.