CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1888, 24 September 1886, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

London, September 20. Mr Gladstone arrived in London to-day from Bavaria. Shaw and Lillywhita’a cricket team has ■ailed for Australia. The pi eea regard the Imperial Institute as a felicitous and opportune proposal. The Times considers that such an Institute is essential to direct men identified with colonial interests and make them familiar with the wants of the colonies in order to avoid catch penny device*, which are profoundly irritating to the colonise, as instanced by the neglect of colonial wines. Shaw’s team is regarded as the strongest betting and bowling team that has ever visited Australia. Beech tails on the 14th. He offers to row Banian for £IOOO or £BOO, the race to be rowed on the Parramatta. The police barracks at Belfast have been tltacktd by a mob, and an attempt made to reseoe two prisoner*. In the conflict which ensued with the authorities, a man and woman were killed and twelve others seris onsly wounded. THE IBISH QUESTION. September 21. The debate on the motion for the second reading of Mr Parnell’s Irish Land Bill was commenced in the House ol Commons today. Mr Gladstone spoke and expreased concurrence in the necessity of temporary relief being afforded to Irish tenants. He stated be wonld vote for the second reading.

September 22. Three to one is laid against Wallace Ross for hia match against Beach, on the 25th, tor the championship. I*Boir, a Paris paper, states that unless Egypt is evacuated England will encounter hostility in Oceania.

The Hon. W. H. Smith, Secretary for War, intends to make such alterations in the positions of retired officers in colonial employ as will remove the gtievanoes under whieh they at present labor.

Bio ns Jaxiibo. September 20. The New Zealand Shipping Company's RM.B. Aorangi, from Wellington (26th August), arrived here on the afterneon of the 18th instant. Her cargo of meat is in good condition.