NEWS BY CABLE.
Zanzibar, 28th-July.
Information Las been received here that Major Battlelot and Tippoo Tib, with a force of 900 men, intend starting on the 15ih August to search for Stanley.
Paris, 30th July. The Municipality have decided to light the city with electricity. London, 31st July. It is reported that the shipping ring are coming to terras with the Australian Mutual Shippers Association, and that one of the concessions will be that merchiints be allowed a voice in deciding tho rates of freight i'C,
Ottawa, 31st August,
Canadian grain estimates make allowanco for tho exportation of Bfteeu million bushels, being a fourth above last year's export.
Sydney, July 31. Should the shipowners agree to confine the conference to the New Zealand difficulty, it is believod that a meeting with the Seamen's' Union can bo arranged.
August 1, A paper enclosed, in a sealed bottle found, near Wollongong, south of Sydney, states that the barque Ocean from Belfast, has been abandoned by the captain and crow. Ten of their number have perished,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2966, 2 August 1888, Page 2
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173NEWS BY CABLE. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2966, 2 August 1888, Page 2
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