NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XVIII, Issue 1730, 7 September 1885, Page 3

NEWS BY CABLE.

CL.-nERA AT GIBRALTAR AND ITALY. THE LONDON SCANDALS. THE GERMAN-SPANISU EMBROGLIC. STRIKE AT ARMSTRONG’S GUN FACTORY. SETTLEMENT OF THE AFGHAN QUESTION. London, September 2. It is announced that it is the intention of the Treasury to institute a prosecution iiL'iiinst Mr Stead, of the Pall Mall Gazette, Mr Bnumvell Booth, and other persons, for the seduction of a Rid named Lily Armstrong in connection with the recent Jefferies scandal, September 3. Cholera has made its appearance at Gibraltar. The agitation which is going on in Spain with regard to the infringement by Germany of the Spanish claims to the islands in question is provoking the anger of the German press, which has lately displayed considerable acerbity towards Spain. Five thousand of the men employed in Sir William Armstrong's gun factory at Elswick have struck. The appeal made by the Graud Lodge of Freemasons of New South Wales to the English Graud Lodge, requesting the latter to recognise them has been refused. September 4. Arrived, this morning- Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company’s ship Dunedin, from Oamaru (11 th June). Her cargo of frozen meat is in good condition. Lord Randolph Churchill, Secretary of State for India, states that the differences between Russia and England with regard to the Afghan frontier question had now arrived at a satisfactory settlement. Rome, September 3. Cholera is reported to have broken out at Parma, and the disease is also stated to have made its appearance in other parts of Italy,