Marlborough Express, Published Every Evening. MONDAY, JULY 2, 1888. TELEGRAPHS INTERRUPTION.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXIV, Issue 139, 2 July 1888, Page 2

Marlborough Express, Published Every Evening. MONDAY, JULY 2, 1888. TELEGRAPHS INTERRUPTION.

— — ♦ "=- JfD wonder there is a scare m Melbourne? we feel a iittle funky over here. Only the other day our cable we»t f 3J?4 how the Banjoewangi one has gone too. Alipur hopes were set on Banjoswangi. The yejy gound of the name was re-assuring. The act of pronouncing it seemed to make one light-hearted, .Ifonjo-wangi ! It has a Christy Minstrel Bigger m§lpdy plantation flavour about it that is quite aplightful. Now Ban joewangi is no more te ug ih&n Tristan d'Acuhua, for the cable has gone, ian4 WQ & re > a s the message says, ! isolated frojs $hg r.egt of the world. Joking apart, the oginmAm^ i s peculiar. There was nothing £n ©ny latp^t »ews to warrant any apprehension of wg,r breaking out, but there is no Bayiug m these days of powerful armaments ana secret operations «&at a designing power might do. Eussia would probably do just that sort of thing; cut -our #a.bl<3,sj secretly and then declare war. .Before jthe i3rj£ish Ainbassndor had quitted Sfc Petersburg, two or three fast cruisers would be well under weigh for the Australasian Colonies axid keeping a bright look-out for ships homeward jjpund.- There are some grounds for a scare, op l'atjisv a scare is not unreasonable, but we do not think there is anything m the mailer more than a co^n r cictence. If there is anything more we ,shaH Boonknqvnt.