CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2910, 29 May 1888, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

London, May 26. The sculling match between Bubear and Can- was won by the former by four lengths.

Paris, May 2G. A cartridge factory in the vicinity of the city exploded to-day, and, although several persons were injured, there were not any fatalities. London, May 27. It is stated that the Duke of Edinburgh has developed alarming symptoms of blood-poisoning, Paris, May 27. Smallpox is ravaging Martinique. Seven hundred deaths are reported to have occurred,

■'.Montreal; May 27. A gasometer exploded here, killing twenty people and injuring many others.

London, May 27. Mr Gladstone, speaking on the provisions of the Local Government Bill, strongly condemned the payment of compensations to publicans for forfeited licenses. Such a principle, he asserted, would be unbearable in practice, and its effect would bo to convert a publican's license into an estate. The Government would only be able to carry their proposals through the servile support of the Unionists,

The Emperor of Brazil is rallying from his recent attack.

New York, May 27. The Rev. Lyman Abbott, formerly associate editor of the Christian Union, has been appointed to succeed the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, as pastor of the Plymouth Congregational Church, Brooklyn. St. Petersburg, May 26, In replying to a deputation, the Czar assured them that the Russian authorities had made all efforts in the direction of peace. Buda-Pesth, May 27. Herr Tisza advised Hungarians to refrain from exhibiting at Paris, because if political troubles eusued, it was possible their goods might be damaged and the nation insulted.