NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2894, 9 May 1888, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

Constantinople, May 6. It i 6 stated that Eussia is prompting Greece to raise an army o| occupation for service in Turkey. St Peteusbero, May (3.

At a meeting of the Military Council to-day, it was agreed that owing to defects and weaknesses of her army, Russia was unable to assume the aggressive, It was decided to construct three railways towards the Austrian frontier, and also that the Siberian railway should be commenced without delay, Paws, May 7. The French Eastern Squadron has been ordered to rendezvous at Yokohama, and thence proceed to sea under sealed orders. This action has caused much surprise, Berlin, May 7. Bismark is reported to have remarked in the course of conversation with Carl Seluirz, the well-known GermanA merican politician, that be had no fear as to the maintenance of peace in the immediate future. Dublin, May G. The decree of His Holiness the Pope was not read in many of the Irish chapels to-day. Rome, May 7. His Holicess the Pope, having considered llie arguments advanced by the Home Rulers, who alleged that he was misinformed as to the facts in Ireland, has decided to enforce his recent decree, London, May 7. Mr Dillon, M.P,, speaking at Kilamory, declared that it was a monstrous thing that the Pope should interfere in politics, and advised the Nationalists to continue the plan of campaign substituting a system-of combined boyMttung for outrage, The Times, in an article on the Chinese difficulty in Australia, says the colonies must abandon recrimination, and act unitedly to secure the exclusion'of the Chinese.