NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 3072, 5 December 1888, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

St. Petersburg, December 3. It lias been decided to victual the City of Warsaw for 56,000 people exclusive of the garrison, Tkeresidents will be expected to remain in case of war, Pans, December 3. Yesterday an orderly procession of 40,000 marched.to Monfcmartre cemetery aud placed wreaths ou the Batidin monument.. At the- cemetery Boulanger denounced-. Napoleon, .and repudiated any desire to imitate, him After the ceremony a. disturbance oocured between the Paris students and the Boulungists; otherwise tho proceedings were quiot, London, 3rd December. - It is roportqd that Sir Hercules , Robinson retires in April. London, Ist December. It is reported that Sir H. A. Blake will succeed Sir Hercules Robinson as Governor of Cape Colony in April. Bhisbank, 3rd December. Satisfaction is expressed here at the appointment of Sir H. W. Nor. man to the Govornship of Queensland.

. _' Paws, December 8. It is expected that the. coming olections will sanction the new National Republican constitution by eight million votes.

After the political demonstration at the Cemotery of Montmartre yesterday, a banquet was held, at which Boulanger delivered a speech ridiculing the idea that he had ever .entertained any intuition of.restoring a despotic regime, Franco had inherited from Napoleon 111 a legacy of revenge whioh. would eventually, lead to a supreme conßict, in which she must conquer or perish. Washington, December 3rd. •

President Clovcland, in a message to Congress, reiterates the necessity of an amendment of the existing tariff. He stigmatises it aa a flagrant injustico to exact millions of revenue from tho people merely to leave them lying dormant in the Treasury vaults, He considers the Fisheries Treaty upplies a satisfactory aud practical basis of adjustment honourable to both parties, and invokes the immediate consideration of the question by Congress, Mr Cleveland defends his treatment of Lord Sackville, the British Minister at Washington, and expresses himself in favour of a cable to Honolulu, In viow of the fact that there, is a surplus of fifty-two millions of dollars lying idle, be concludes his message by recommending tho suspension of silver coinage for tho Mr Cleveland wijl pay a vjsit to Europe in May, .