NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2879, 21 April 1888, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

Affairs in Europe.

St Petersburg, April 18. The Moscow Gazette says that it. will greatly interest Russia to know that France is in a strong position, no matter through wliom the strength may come. April 19. The Russian press lias been enjoined, under penalty of severe punishment, not to publish a word in disparagement of Prince William.

The Irish Trouble. London, April 19. The Daily Ohroniclo states that his Holiness the Pope has directed Archbishop Walsh, of Dublin, to prepare a report on the principles of the Irish National League, and also to explain the charges preferred against it, and the outrages which have recently taken place in Ireland. The report will be compared with that submitted by Monsiguor Persico, the Papal Delegate to Ireland,

The German Emperor. Berlin, April 18. The Emperor is worse. Blood-poi-soning is. feared. The Emperor appeared.at the windows of his palance three times during the day, and received a great ovation from the crowds assembled below. Blood-poisoning set in this evening, and the worst is considered imminent. It has been found necessary to insert a larger canula in the Emperor's throat to facilitate breathing. The operation was successfully performed. . ' • April 19. ■ There is intense anxiety regarding the condition of the Emperor.

General. London, April 18. It is officially announced that the Porte declines to allow either the proposed British or French modifications in the Suez (Janal Convention. The Deceased Wife's Sister Bill has been read a second time in the House of Commons by a majority of 57. It is reported that Sir Arthur Gordon has been raised to the Peerage. Mr Octavius Morgan's Colonial Marriage Bill has been i withdrawn, owing to the satisfactory division in the House of oomraon3 oil the motion for second reading of the Deceased Wife's Sister Bill.-

Mr Goschen, -speaking at Croyden, eugolised the readiness shown by the Australian Colonies to bear their share of the cost of defending the Empire aud to maintain an Australian navy. Mr Goschen expressed the opinion that the House of Commons would liberally and satisfactorily respond to the expectations of the Colony in the matter.

St Peteksberg, April 19. There is a great separatist movement afoot in the Caucasian provinces, headed by the aristocrats of Georgia. Numerous arrests have been made. London, April 19. The libel action Peters v. Bradlaugh lias resulted in a verdict for the plaintiff and £3OO damages being awarded. Mr Bradlaugh has apologised for the statement he made that the Marquis of Salisbury had given cheques for the purpose of organising unemployed gatherings in Trafalgar Square, and the proceedings against him for libel have been abandoned.

London, April 18. The proposal to elect Australians members of the Jockey Club is being opposed, oil the ground that many notable English sportsmen are unable to secure election.