CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1814, 31 March 1886, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

THE BELGIAN SI BIKES. CONFLICTS BETWEEN THE MOB AND THE MILITARY. TWO HUNDRED PEOPLE KILLED AND WOUNDED. RUSSIA REJECTS PRINCE ALEXANDER’S DEMAND. LesroN, March 26. Arrived, at Plymouth, yesterday afternoon, Shaw, Savill and Albion Company's s.s. Doric. Her cargo of frozen meat is reported to be in good condition March 27. In the Reichstag, Prince Bismarck referred ominously to the present attitude of France toward Germany. March 28. The following vessels hive arrived -.-Ada Melmore, from Oamaru (December 21 hj) ; Lochnagar, from Wellington (December 21th) Orari. from Lyttelton (December 2'.)th) ; Pleiades, from Nanrer (December 27tb) ; Eldersue. steamer, from Port Chalmers (February lib). March 2’.). The Afghan frontier question is at a standstill, owing to fresh demands by Russia. The Bill brongnt in by Prince Bismarck for ths purpose of establishing a Government monopoly in tne manufacture and sale cf spirits, baa been rejected by the Reichstag. Brcssels, March 28. The industrial strikes in Belgium are rapidly spreading, and have now extended to the CharWoi district. Rioting of a very •erioos character is of almost daily occurrence, the chateaux of the employers and the factories being pillage ', and in many cases burned. The troops have been called into requisition, and have bad several sanguinary eooflrcta with the rioters. March 29. Tta tiotirg in the Charleroi e nti-ues to spread, and me town melt is virtually in a state of siege, the strikers holding possession and forcibly stopping all tbe industries of the place. In consequence of the threatening stale of affairs King Leopold has called out the army reserve. The rn ts in Belgium have now attained a very serious phase. The rioters have wrecked tbe leading glassworks throughout Belgium, and the services ot tbe military were cilled into requisition in tbe various towns, with tbe result that over 200 people have been killed ot wounded. St Peters bubo, March 28 The Russian Government has definitely anocanced its rejection of tbe suggestion put forward by Italy that the appointment of Prince Alexander as Governor ot Eastern Boumelia should be unfettered by restrictions as to the duration of his term of office. StriNET, March 29.

A warrant was issned to day, at the instance of a private crtJ .oi, for the appre tension of Mr Holt.