NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2862, 2 April 1888, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

A Murderous Plot. - Doblin, March 29. _ It is stated that the police authorities Jiave discovered a plot for the murder of Mr A. J. Balfour, Irish Secretary. Federation an Absurd Dream. London, March 28. The Eight Hon John Bright, speaking at Birmingham, declared that Federation was a dream of absurdity, and contended that the.colonies would never become responsible for the warlike policy of England, and the divergent tariffs would also prove to be an obstacle, Pasteur's Rabbit Epidemic. London, March 28. Sir Dillon Bell has bad an interview with M.-Pasteur with reference to the latter's scheme for exterminating rabbits. Sir Dillon appears satisfied that the introduction of microbes is feasible and could be used with safety. The full nature of the interview has not been disclosed, but it is understood that M. Pasteur revealed, the whole process of his scheme to the New Zealand representative. Russia's Next Move. St Petersburg, March 29, The Eussian Government are about to ask the Great Powers to declare that Bulgaria is contumacious and revolutionary. General. London, March 29. The Standard states that it is nonsense the way investors have rushed for New Zealand, South Australian, and Queensland stocks. H.M.S. Swiftsure will shortly come out as flagship to the Pacific Squadron. The leading French lapidaries pronounce that the rubies brought Home by Mr Kichard Pearson, -.from South Australia, are of excellent quality, Inquiries made into the circumstances connected with the French squadron firing upon the - Italian steamer Solferina prove that the affair was quite accidental, and the incident has been arranged satisfactorily. • The Admiralty have dismissed all the officials puilty of complicity in the Devonport dockyard frauds, and have also reduced all those who have been shown to be negligent in detecting such frauds.. Disastrous Floods. Berlin, March 29. The Vistula Valley is inundated, and seventy villages have been devastated, , March 30. Harrowing details continue to arrive of the sufferings and privations endured by the inhabitants of the ter-' ritory affected by the recent floods. It is now stated that 75,000 people have been rendered- homeless and that property to the value ■of 400,000,000 marks (£20,000,000) has been destroyed. Nearly the whole of North Germany has been affected by the disaster, Russian Activity. Sistova, March 30. It is reported here that a Eussian flying corps is being organised at Kicheneff to operate in Bulgaria,