CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2886, 30 April 1888, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

Berlin, April 25. It is considered that the Emperor's recent improvement in health is only of a temporary character. ■'s, April 27. The Emperor's physicians believe that the .crisis in his illnes3 has been overcome. Queen Victoria to-day iuspected the Prussian Guards, and left for England this evening. j The German and Austrian pre®'; augurs that Queen Victoria's continent' tal tour strengthens tho chances of peace, Constantinople, April 27. The Government of Greece prompted by Russia, accuses Turkey of persecuting the Greeks. London, April 27. It is officially announced that His Holiness the Pope has condemned boycotting and the plan of campaigns ' unlawful means to break the contracts made by the Land Courts, and because the money available for the purpose of the phn of campaign • was collected by - extortionate 'methods. April 26. ' The shipping ring-admit thegrievances complained of by shippers, but ■ state that at present they are unable to comply with the demands of the latter, owing to the contracts under which the ring are already bound and must fulfil. Jake Kilrain offers to present Lees, of Australia, with £IOO, if the will box him for £IOOO, the former*;' use 3oz and Lees loa gloves. Reports have been received from the Brazillian Government denying the rumors that natives there have been .

poisoned, Mr James Rankin, M,P. for Leominster, intends to bring before the House of Commons, a proposal providing for the emigration [of children in tho industrial schools to Australia.' April 27. - The tax on bottled wines has been agreed to by a large majority. Mr Gladstone opposed the proposal, urging that tho imposition of such a heavy. duty would provo a great impediment to the Australian wine trade, ill' Goschen, in reply, said that the colonies would' not suffer ia the slightest degree from the tax. The Times considers that the Queensland and New Zealand loans, after the experience of New South Wales, must be immensely successful, JQ; , Massowaii, April 25, " The Negus of Abyssinia has renewed parleying with the Italian Government for peaco.

AUSTRALIAN. Sydney, April 27. Mr Haynes has declined to receive the amount paid into Court by Mr Fletcher, in satisfaction of his claim for damages for assault committed, and the case will shortly be heard in the Supreme Court. Melbourne, April 27. The prospectus has been issued of a new bank, called the Eoyal Bank of Australasia, Thecapitalis £3,600,000.

At a public meeting to-day, tions were carried urging the Legis- ' lature to pass without delay a Bill providing for the extension of the franchise to women.

A plague of rats has visited the Echuca Plains, doing great damage to the feed there. A passenger by the Oroya has beW arrested on a charge of smuggling £2OO worth of jewellery ashore. The steamer Afghan, from Hong Kong, has arrived with 300 Chinese oil board, a hundred of whom sought admission to the colony under somewhat suspicious circumstances, and the authorities have refused to grant them permission to land' until a searching investigation has been made into the circumstances of their arrival.