NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2967, 3 August 1888, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

London, July 31,

Kelynge and Arthur Greeuawuy, tlio principal partners in'the Greenaway's Bank at Warwick and Leamington, have been- convicted of misappropriating an Australian dralt for £1,200, Arthur Greenaway was sentenced to live years, and Kelygne Greenaway to twelve months hard labour,

Paris, July 31

The Socialists in this city threaten to organise a series of general strikes in commemoration of tho centenary of the Frenoh revolution. Fifteen thousand navvies are now on strike iu this city, tlio Socialists heading tho movement. The French wheat crop is a disastrous failure.

Washington, July 31,

Resolutions areto be introduced into the American Congress requiring tho Government to demand from England tho restoration of the rams and ironclads flying the British flag built for thp Seceflers and piid for out of Southern money, N« York, August 1.

It is believed Congress will reject tho Canadian Fisheries Treaty Bill. In the Chamber of. Deputies the Premier denied the report that France had designs on Tripoli, but declared his belief that Italy was maturing plans to gain a footing in t|iat country, Sydney, August?,

At the Canterbury Puk race meeting yesterday, Forbes, the Jockey, was killed by his horse falling with him in the Hurdle Race,