NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 3090, 28 December 1888, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

" Losoos, 26th DeceruScr. ■ .Obituary.—Sir Frederick; Pollock! Indian officer. , ' ,v ' . Mr R, Wtilrond Ims been appointed RpeVetary to Ehil Onslow, Governorelect of Nkw ZtlalHml. MrDmiiiis, pro|ir;etor of th« Court Society Kminw, Imsbefii comjiiilhorily iimdu iiaiibupt. In an aiiiilitvii tin declHiea tlnit the proupedi"!!? linvc foen liflilitutmr 'by' J Mr'' Heiiiiilcef' Heaten, M. P. for Ginlerlmry, to pre-vunt-him bringing an action Hguirnt Mr • H'ratbn for £500,' which Me Denius ( Btatca is due to liiin for writing Mr'Htjttioii'ii lettera and B|M:eclite, . The •Government are forming, a Railway'' Volunteer Force, The Great Northern and. North-Western Companies have undertaken to provide a thousand men.

Her Majesty's speech on the occasion of the prorogation of Parliament makes noietcrence to Irish affairs, It remarks that'the rising of Dinizulu has met, with no ';sympathy.. trom the Zulus. . Mr Bright has bad a serious relapse and is again in a precarious condition. The Times Btigaiatises the report of the Russo-'Japinese treaty as a mereoanard,. ; .It is stated that Abyssinia intends to. assert her rights to territory on the coast of East Africa.

. Sir F. de;Winton expects to receive .direct news of Stanley in a He is of opinion that the explorer will arrive at Zanzibar, in April or May, 1 Lord Salisbury, in the course of a speech, denounced the embargo laid upon trade with Persia by Russia as an attempt, to levy blackmail, Wasbingios, December 2G.

The United; States Government olaiins an indemnity of half a million dollars froin Hayti for the detention of the American steamer. Paris, D.ecember 26. Boulanger contests the vacancy in the representation of Paris. St Petersburg, December 2G.

Salabrackoff Toutcheff lias hen appointed Russian Minister to Bulgaria.^:' Berlin, December 2(1. Lieutenant Wissman, who is to lead au expedition in search of Stanley has been attached to tho German Foreign Office. Home, December 23. Mr Gladstone arrived-at Naples to day and was received with ontliusiasni by the popluace. Oratorical welcomes were delivered by tl;e students. . S.ignor Orispi is remodelling the Cabinet. Ottawa, December 2i). The Supreme Court ot Canada Ins given adecioou upholding the right of Manitoba to construct tho lied hiver Haihvay. New York, December 24. A steamer leaving, Memphis, • a town of Tenuossee, -to-day caiigln fire. The vessel was crowded with passengers and a panio ensued, and the uumbor di owned is : estimated at 80.