NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3228, 12 June 1889, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

ENGLISH. London, June 10. Ciptain Robert Woodward, of H.M.S. Duke of. Wellington, the flagship at Portsmouth, lias been arrested for contempt of Court by not producing under a writ of Ha.haus Corpus the seaman Thomeson who was wrongfully sentenced for alleged desertiou.from H.M.S. Calliope. • Tlib ' Archtidliojt of . Canterbury, Cardinal Manning, the Rev 0. H. Spurgeon, Dr Temple (Bishop of London), Dr Vaughan (Muster of the Temple), Messrs Gladstone and Morley, Lord Hartingion and Lord E, Churchill are members of the committee appointed to consider the memorial to the lato Father Daraien; who died at his post among the lepers of Molokai, in the Sandwich Islands. The Prince of Wales. presided at the meeting, Prince Albert Victor of Wales will pay ut visit to India shortly. . The Australian horse Ringmaster's weight for the Ascot Royal Hunt Cup is Bsfc 31b. Sir H, James opened the case for plaintiff in tlw suit Chetwynd v. Durham, in which the Jockey Club has undertaken to arbitrate, Russia is still intriguing in Servin, and it is considered not unlikely that her machinations in the. Balkan Peninsula will eventually cause au oulbitak of hostilities. FOREIGN, Vienna, Juno 10. Uishop Michael's return to Servia after visiting the Czar, has caused some sensation in Austrian official circles. He proposes tliat Prince Nikita, of Montenegro, should bo made King of Soma,, in which aro to be included Bosnia aud Herzegovina Tile Politisclie Korrespondenz suggests that Austria should check* inalo Rtiasifi by recalling ex-Kiug Milan, and restoring Bosnia and Herzegovina in return for a money payment. Austrian troops are reinforcing the Bosnian garrisons, and an uneasy feeling generally prevails. Paiiis, June 10. Reiohart, the officer arrested yesterday for Boulangist tendencies, has been released, It is stated that the Governor of Bunkirlt is to be arrested, St. Petersburg, June 10. It is rumoured hero that the Shah of Persia aud the Czar have signed a seoret convention by which ,tho prtfvinco of Khorassau will be ceded to Russia, and in case of war the commercial policy submitted to Russian revision. Russia undertakes on. her part to uphold the present Persian dynasty, The secret treaty between Russia and Persia provides for the military dominance of the'former in Persian territory, and no concession is to be granted to other Powers without the consent of Russia, Berlin, Juno 10. The Blmh of Persia has arrived in this city (on ft visit : to the Emperor William, by .whom he was cordially received. Prince Bismarck had previously met tho Sbab at Varzin. The Kohiische (Cologne) Zeitung states that .the Czar warned the Shah of Persiatlmt if he made any more concessions to England of a naturo unfavorable to Russia; it was quite possible that a hundred thousand boyonots would dross tho Persian frontier. . AMERICAN, New York, 10th Juno, The enquiry into the bursting of the reservoir at Johnstown conoludod to-day, when a verdict was returned that tho accident was caused by criminal negligence of the owners, Tho lives of tho latter were seriously menaced by the.mob. . All danger of pestilence breaking out is now averted, The amount subscribed in aid of the sufferers-is found to be inadequate for pressing wants. ■ Australian, Sydney, June 11, Fifty-one thousand bushels ; of seed wheat has been "distributed to farmers, : ' ' -Brisbane, Jane U, •. A large meeting of Loyalist was held-here, at which resolutions were passed disapproving of the introduction of a bitter feeling, either sectarian or political, on questions not affecting the colony. The meeting also protested against M r Dillon's asstjinptioh that he had received a welcome! in Queensland, arid it was asserted that he had not' even "beon welcomed by the majority, of the intelligent Irish'section of the community,