CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2865, 5 April 1888, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

Affairs in Europe, Berlin, April 3, The German police are excluding all persons not provided with official passports from crossing the Alsace frontier, Yienna, April 2, The Government'are raising two additional regiments of cavalry. The -Irish Question. London, April 2. The Rational League intended Holding a geriep of meetjngs on Sunday, but'they we're 'suppressed by 'the Government,

The Abyssinian Campaign. Massowah, April 3. It is expected that a battle between the followers of the Negus of Abyssinia and the Italian troops will hortly take place at Arlet Dembra. General, St. Petersburg, April 2. The Russian Court of Appeal has deprived Princes Hohenlohe and Wittegenstein of their estates in Russia, on the ground that they are foreigners. London, April 2. It is mentioned that the American stock of wheat is 18,000,000 bushels above the estimate. AUSTRALIAN. Sydney, April 4, Five trains ars now running daily to Barrier Ranges, near the Broken Hill Mines. Labor is unprocurable there, and it is suggested that the Government should send the unemployed from the National Park to Broken Hill.

April 3. One of the principal building firms have paid off all the masons in their employ, and are now offering 10s instead of lis a day, which is the ruling rate, alleging that they have lost so much lately, and chat masons must give way as well as other trades. A meeting of the trade societies will be held to consider the position. Cross, the bogus sweep promoter, was to-day fined £IOO and costs. Notice of appeal was given. The child affected with smallpox still lies in a critical state. No further cases are reported;