NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2987, 27 August 1888, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

.Berlin,August2B. ■■', .Prince -Bismarck, has..resigned the portfolio of Commerce and Industry in the Prussian Ministry. Signer Oripsi, who has arrived on a visit to Bismarck was warmly welcomed. ■'.. .-.■'.;.

The Gorman Press assert ■•that Signer. Cripsi's noto to Mi Goblet, the French -Minister of War, on the Massowah difficulty, resembled a memorandum to excite war.

'[ ; « •' London, August 23,. i; The Times states tliatSignorCripsiV visit to Germany is likely to inflame excitement and create alarm -on the Continent owing to the strained relations existing between France and Italy. Newcastle, August 25.

Tho miners' strike is 1 expected to last from three to live months, Four hundred wharf hands havo been paid off, there being no work for them, and trade is almost completely paralysed, Tho vessels in harbor awaiting coal cargoes amount to 70,000 tons, It Is bolieved that the strike will result in one-third ef the coastal shipping being laid up and 700 seamen thrown out. Melbourne, August 25.

11l consequence oi tho threatened coal famine, the Gas Company have resolved to reduce the gas pressure by one-half, '

Sydney, August 25. The drought is causing sad havoc in the western district. The season is tho worst known for many years, and the outlook is very gloomy. Shoep are dying in hundreds. Special prayers for rain will be offered up throughout the Colony on tbo 31st August.