"AGE" SPECIALS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2470, 7 December 1886, Page 2

"AGE" SPECIALS.

(Reuter's Teleghams.)

London, Novembor 24. Intelligence has boon received that the Russian Government is exhibiting a desire to remove the strained feelinc which has existed for some timo past betwoen Russia and China; and, to secure the friendship of the lattorEmpire it is announced that the Russian officers at Vladivostok havo been ordered to do all_ in their, power toward cultivating amicable relations with China,

November 25. It is rumored that the German Government contemplate attempting to mediate between Russia and Bulgaria, and to bring about a pacific settlement of tho present dispute. _ Mr Bosisto has arranged for tho affiliation of tho Melbourne Art Schools with the South Kensington School of Art. . The man Drew, who was arrested in Sydney in July last after a sensational chase, during which the accused attempted to make his way out of the harbor in a yacht, has been tried on the charge upon which ho was arrested, namely, embezzling a large sum of money from a firm of solicitors in Norwick, and sentenced to ten year's imprisonment. Sir Frederick Ahol has been appointed Organising Secretary to tho Imperial Jubilee Institute.

; November 28; A considerable amount of surprise has been, occasioned in diplomatic circles by the offioial announcement of the faot that fchoSultan of Turkey has conferred a high military honor and decoration upon General Kaulbars, the special Russian Ambassador in Bulgaria, who visited Constantinople whilst en route to St. Petersburgh for the purpose of reporting to the Czar upon the condition of afiairs in the Balkan State. , More, than ordinary activity is being displayed by dynamiters in America, with the immediate result that O'Donovan Rqßsa,tho.well-known leader of the movement, has been deposed owing to the want of activity which he has latterly shown in the affairs of the organisation.