CABLE NEWS.

Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 68, 7 June 1895, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

HOME AND FOREIGN. FORMOSA. Shanghai, June 4. The formal transfer of Formosa to Japan has been effected. FEMALE LODGES. London, June 4. The Directors of the Oddfellows’ Society bave agreed tbat the time has arrived for the forming of female lodges. OSCAR WILDE INSANE. London, June 4. - It is reported that Oscar Wilde became insane when bis head was shaved, and had to be confined in a padded room. PROPOSED PRODUCE AUCTION SCHEME. London, June 4. Trengrouse and Company will co-operate in the produce auction scheme proposed by Sir W. B. Percival. Several leading bankers and importers are favourable to the proposal. CRICKET. London, June 4. Stoddart scored 154 for Middlesex against Somerset, THE ATT A O £ ONT CONSULS, Constantinople, June 4. The Sultan has ordered a court-martial upon tLo j eddali assassins.

RUSSIAN TROOPS NEAR TBE OHiTRAL FRONT.- 3 R, London, June 4. Russia is reported to be sending two battalions of infantry, six mountain batteries, and eight sotnias of Cossacks to Ura Tepe, within 80 miles of the Chitral frontier. REPORTED LABOUR APPOINTMENT. London, June 4. The Daily Chronicle says it is reported that Mr W. Abraham, M.P. forßhonddo, and chief agent for the miners of South Wales for 22 years, has been offered a position of Government Arbiter in Labour Disputes in Australia. Mr Abraham says, however, that he knows nothing about the statement. AN ITALIAN STATES MAN MORTALLY WOUNDED. Rome, June 4. Socialists have mortally w ounded Signor Ferrare who was Under-Secretary for Foreign-Affairs in the Giolitti Ministry.