NEWS BY CABLE.
London, May 16th An Australian wheat cargo of 6000 quarters (June shipment) has been sold at 34s 4|| two cargoes of 2000 quarters and 1000 quarters each have been sold at 335, The Coptic's frozen weat is' selling at from 4d to 4| per lb, A portion of the cargo arrived iii a damaged condition.
May 17 th. Lord Randolph Churchill, speaking at Preston, denounced the incredible waste and extravagance of the Admiralty and the War Office, where a fatal phaos wpuld reign in tjie event of war breaking out. T|ie warships and fortresses me without guns, the liljes of tlio infantry were obsolete, and therg was no reserve material on hand.
ftir A. J, Balfour, Qhief Secretary for Ireland, addressing a meeting at Battersea, said that Mr Gladstone's speech,-in reply to the address presented liira by Nonconformist clergymen, was one of the most violent and least creditable ever littered by that gentleman, He (Mr Balfour) asserted that Mr Gladstone has been guilty of committing every offence with which he now charged the Government,
St Petersbero, May 17. An Austrian officer lias been arrested in Poland on a charge of being suspected of having mapped all the Kussian forts on the frontier.
The Russian railway authorities have been ordered to accumulate 50,000 tons of coal.
Paris, May 17. It is reported that the Premier will mpve for 'the expulsion of Boulanger fcom the Chamber of Deputies. The Government intend to place the sum of 30 million francs 011 the estimates (on coastal defeie,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2903, 19 May 1888, Page 2
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256NEWS BY CABLE. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2903, 19 May 1888, Page 2
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