NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2801, 18 January 1888, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

London, January 16. A company is to be floated to take over Bass' brewery. Paris, January 15.

A French sentinel on tbe frontier reports that he has been attacked by Germans and his rifle stolen from him. St Petersburg, January 15. Typhoid fever has broken out in the army in Poland, and forty men have been frozen to death, Vienna, January 15. Frequent meetings of the Austrian Military Council have been held during the past few clays, and the alarmist feeling prevalent some time ago has been thus revived. The Hungarian press is distrustful ot Germany. London, January 16. The Daily Telegraph states that Italy will send 200,000 troops to Galicia in the event of the outbreak of war. Russia's Hostile Activity. Sofia, January 15. Russia is massing troops at' Kiev, Odessa, and Kishinev. Other' corps have been ordered to proceed further along the Austra-Himgarian and Roumanian f ion tiers. v Berlin, January 15. There is feverish activity among the Russian troops in Poland, where th,e commissariat, huspital, and railway staffs are making large additions to plant and rolling stock, In many towns foreign merchant!) have been ordered by Russian officials to close their premises and leave tbe country.