NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2837, 2 March 1888, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

THEEUROPEANSITUATM Getting Ready. London, February 28. g& The Admiralty are mobilising 'aW, strong fleet, nominally for the spring manoeuvres. . > Russia's Latest Idea. _ ■*' Where She Feelsit. ™'*« St Petersburg, February 29. The St. Petersburg press suggests that if the Powers agree Russia should undertake a naval demonstration' against Bulgaria on the Black Sea •oast. -. There has been a panic on the Bourse owing to the heavy fall in Russian rouble notes. -

France Irritated.

Paris, February 29.

The presence of the British Mediterranean fleet at Genoa has greatly irritated 'the French, and some Parisian journals have openly accused Lord Salisbury of conspiring withDeCrispi, the Italian Premier, and Prince Bismarck, to destroy France. Turkey Dodging Things.

Stajiijoul, February 29;flj An impression prevails in diplomatic circles here that the Porte will not reply to the Eussian Note, but will temporise to gain time. The Crown Prince. All hope gone, San Kemo, February 28 The Crown Prince has developed alarming symptoms, and is ,now spitting blood. He is very gloomy, and apprehensive of the danger he is in. It is stated that the Emperor has ordered the.German doctors to remain here and confine their attention exclusively to the 'Jrown Prince. ' A telegram has been dispatched, to Queen Victoria, stating that the Imperial Family and the physicians attending the Crown 'Prince have, abandoned all hope of the patient surviving, and that a fatal issue toMf disease is regarded as inevitable, Valuable Discoveries. ' ' Newcastle, February 2S). ■ A coal seam, :soft thick, has been ( . discovered near the Curlewes Mlway Station, 200 miles north of Newcastle. It is reported that an important discovery of platinum has been made in Queensland, but the exact locality of the discovery is being kept secret.

Another Royal lint. Brisbane February 29. , The Cabinet have decided to apply to the Home authorities to be allowed to establish a Eoyal mint in this city. ■ The Yellow Agony. Adelaide, February 23. The Cabinet have decided to imposo quarantine regulations to put a stop to the influx of Chinese, which has bacome a serious evil in the coloajk ' The regulations declare all Chiidp ports to be infected ports under the quarantine laws, and that all Chinese passengers from China, shall, upon arrival in the colony be kept on hoard if the vessel which brings them to the * colony for a period of 21 days before they will be permitted to land. The regulations further provide that the - authorities at Hong Kong are to be • advised that a poll tax will be imposed on every Chinese passenger landing in the colony. Promising Ruby Fields,

Adelaide, February 29,

Sixty-thi'3o claims have been pegged off on the mby fields, comprising 2520 acres, for an English and Australian syndicate. Thellothchikls and other European capitalists are said to be largely interested in the venture. 'lhe land was selected by a Sydney surveyor, who travelled overland from Bourke to prevent rumours offlHs mission reaching Adelaide and bringing rivals into the field. A £40,000 Fire, ■ Melbouhne, March 1. A fire broke out at 11 o'clock last Jt night in the warehouse of Messrs '* Sargood, Butler k Mitchell, soft-goods merchants, Flinders Street. The prehiises were not destroyed, but it is estimated that the damage to the building and stock is £40,000, which is partly covered by insurance, The Shocking Outrages on Women. Melbourne, March. 1, The three men, arrested on the ' charge of being concerned in the criminal assault upon Mrs Cuumiiugs, who died from injuries inflicted, been committed for trial for muSr. The evidence adduced at the Magis-terial-enquiry was of a contradictory nature, and it" was also proved that character of tho woman was not good. Each of the men protested his innocence, and said he know nothing of the affair,

Bank-Note Bobbery, i Melbourne, March 1. Sidney Jenkins, formerly a messenger in the Bank of Australasia, has I beei-arrested for the larceny of live hu*|ed cancelled notes from the Bank. Accused left the Bank about the time it was reported that cancelled notes were in circulation in December last, and although ho has done no work since, alwayshad plenty of money. The Rabbit Question, Sydney, March 1, The appointment of an International and Colonial Commission of Experts to consider the rabbit question has met with the approval of most of the Colonies. A reply from the .New Zealand Government is expected shortly,