NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2917, 6 June 1888, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

Calcutta, June "2. Information has been received that ho Thibetans are massing in large lumbers in the Kapup Valley. London, Juno 3. H.M.S. Underwood and Iris are to >e stationed in Australian waters,

The now flagship Orlando will shortly sail to relieve the Nelson, She takes two torpedo boats with her, Melbourne, June 4. Ths Exhibition Building is approaching completion, The total area covered by the buildings is 33 acres, which far eclipses the space occupied by the buildings of the Exhibition of 1880. The place allotted for the electric lighting will be a marvellous exhibition of the advance of electricity. The total deficiency of the absconded sharebrokers is 130,000. The silver crisis involves another to the extent of £14,000, while several others are arranging with their creditors. A desperate struggle took place between two robbers and some members of the police force early this morning,

One Constable was disabled by a stone. One of the robbers named Ryan fired six times at his pursuers before he was captured.

Brisbane. June 4

The body of a young woman named Flora Cartwright has been found in the bottom of a well at Carters Towers, and a young man named Thomas Donovan, with whom she had been keeping company, has been arrested on a charge of murder.

European Affairs,

Berlin, June 4,

A Government crisis is imminent in Prussia, iu consequence of the Emperor hesitating to promulgate the Act prolonging the Diet until the freedom of the elections is guaranteed. London, Juue 3,

Owing to the stringency of the passport system adopted by Germany, a largii number of travellers have been prevented from crossing the frontier from France into Germany, Berlin, Jime.3,

Owing to the Emperor Frederick's action in adding a rescript to his assent to the Quinquennial Diet law urging that there should be freedom in voting, the Ministry have threatened to resign rather than promulgate a law in the direction requested,

Constantinople, June 3,

The Russian Ambassador has communicated with the Porte demanding the arrears of tha Turkish indemnity, and that the payments be made regularly in future,

The New Zealand Loan. London, 3rd June. The Financial News, referring to New Zealand, express ail opinion that the threatened crisis is coming at last, and her attempt at borrowing is probably the last straw which will render the crisis inevitable. The article goes on to say that the primage on imports, as proposed by the Government, is a desperate remedy. It mentions that the debt of New Zealand is equal to one-fifth of the value of the total property of the colony, which is now already fully mortgaged.