NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3284, 16 August 1889, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

ENGLISH.

London, August 9,

A party of Mahomrnedans shot an Italian soldier dead outside Candia. The Italian Government ordered a warship to proceed thither and demand satisfaction,

Tho Christian majority in the Cretan Assembly are arming against the Mahommedous who are leading the revolt,

Greece has sent a formal note threatening to interfere'unless order is restored. The Greek fleet has been ordered to "be in readiness to proceed to Crete.

The English Government, replying to .Greece's note, discourages any action being taken. Turkey declines to agree to mediation, and Eiami Pasha, the Grand Vizier, has made a demand no Greece for au explanation of her note to the Powers,

The report that Major-General Sir George Grenfell has discoveoed documents in possession of Dervishos proving that a number of Egyptian officials and many residents of Cairo have been guilty of treason -in connection with the rocent rising has been denied, \Vhen Soarle was sculling ou the Thames yesterday in his Clasper boat, ho came in collision with a large barge, and his boat was smashed and sank, Searle reached shore safely. . During the discussion in tho House of Commons on the night of the Bth on the vote for tho Irish Magistracy, tho Farnollitos charged Mr Balfour with making an insulting gesture towards the Irish members. A scene of tremendous uproar arose. Mr Timothy Harrington advanced towards the benches in a menacing manner, but was held back. Much excitoment prevailed in the Chamber and order was restored with the utmost difficulty.

The Record states that Canon Saumarez Smith has accepted the Bishopric of Sydney, FOREIGN.

Paris, August 9,

The prosecutions of Boulangei before the Senatorial High Courl was opened on the Bfch by M Quesnetz de Beaure Paire, Procureui General, Up to the present vorj little new evidence has been ad duced.

Ottawa, August 9,

Seven British men-of-war and two torpedo boats have left Esquimalt for Behring Strait to protect British interests and to examine the course pursued by the American authorities,

Zanzibar, August 9.

News has reached here that Stanley and Emin Bey, with 9000 men and an enormous quantity of ivory, are nearing the Zanzibar coast, Tho date of thoir probable arrival hero at present is unkuown. •

Australian. Sydney, August 10, F. 0. Dean, the late Town Clerk of the Thames, was arrested at Norfolk Island and has been brought here, He goes to Auckland by the Hauroto.

_ The Egeria has annexed the Phcenix and Union groups lying in the route of the Pacific cable. No oppo • sition was offered. It is reported that the American flag was flying on several islands of the groups. Tho Mount Kembla miners have again struck.

Melbourne, August 10, Sir J. Hector says that the coal plains of Gippsland could not profitably bo worked on a largo scale, there are indications of the existence of a coalfield of great value. The Customs detectives have unearthed extraordinary and wholesalo systematic robbery of goods from lighters used in removing cargo under bond. A valuable plant ol the goods has been discovered at Port Melbourne