CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1834, 19 May 1886, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

[ FLOODS IK ENGLAND. NEW ZEALAND MINERS FOE KIMBERLY EXTRAORDINARY MASSING OF RUSSIAN TROOPS. DESTRUCTIVE CYCLONES. A SCOTCH PROTEST AGAINST HOVE RULE. A NEW ZEALAND PARCELS POST. SICKNESS AMONG NEW GUINEA ' EXPLORERS. I Plthoctu, Rtj 1A j The At. lonic armed laet night from New and her cargo of (Vo ten meet II reported to be ingood condition. [ Colonial bread stuffs and tallow are unchanged. New ; Zea’and troten mutton it worth 5d per lb. The total quantity of wheat afloat for the United Kingdom to 1,880,000 quarters, being 10,000 quarters more tbsy reported last Thursday. Mr William Beach, the New South Wales oarsman, has arrived from Australia. „ May 19. Heavy rams have fallen in the Midland Counties and large tracts of country art flooded, eenone damage to property being occasioned in many districts. All wool shipments arrived up to the present will be available for the third series of tales. It is announced that the Govenunant have finally resolved not to allow the annexation of lha New Hebrides by France. I The RM S. Aorangiarrived, all well, at Plrmentb at Plymouth at 2 a m. to-day, with her fro sea meat in good condition. ■n • Loirnos, May 17. Destructive cyclones, doing an munente amount of ; damage, have been experienced in Amenea, Italy Germany, and Austria. * The Kermadeo Islands, situated to the north-eeat of i New Zealand, have beenannexed to tin* colony The Bast and West Coast Rsilway syndicate have , paid a deposit of £SOOB to Sir P. Dillon Bell, AgentGeneral for New Zealand, in connection with their i contract. A petition, signed by 108,000 Scotchmen, hss beats presented l.> the English Government protesting against Home Rule for Irelsnd. 1 The New Zealund Government are arranging for the establishment of a parcel post by their direct (teem [ service. The French press advocate the abrogation of the by their Government rea|>eeting the Three hundred and Hfty thouaand Rutsiaa troops art being massed unite Crimea and Bennnbia. a . ... MiLßottmi, May lA. Several of the passengers per W.iihora, from New Zealand, are bound lor the Kimberly guldfleldt hr the steamer Gammer. T , . . Svuset, May 18. The death is announced of Mr Hugh George, sa» ger ol the Sydney Meriting HeraM formerly uonnected with the Ifolbourne Argus. as . . . . M*T 17 A JpUn* has !*«fn retVMvryl c ; fv \*\r Gumoa reporting that a deal of ...l Lae--.-, ixM - rurred among the For*.os •nd that the party is completely brokeu up m ownsequence* THE GREEK CRISIS. PROGRESS OF THE BLOCKADE CONTRIBUTIONS LEVIED By THE AUSTRIANS. Lohdcsi. May 18. The Austrian Admiral landed at Nktaihos, an island ofl the coast »f Greece, ten mesa north of Euboea, and levied eontribulioua of loud The striugenvr of the blockade is placing the inhabitants of Atgina 'and Volo in great straits. MR. GLADSTONE'S IRISH REFORM SCHEIE. THE GOVERNMENT URGED TO WITHDRAW THE PROPOSALS. A DISSOLUTION IMMINENT. EXPECTED.RESULT OF THE TOTING. IfOSDOM, May 14 A meeting of l iberals and Radicals look plao* today, when Lord Harlingtun and Mr Chamberlain both urged the Government u> withdraw the Heme Rule Bill A meeting of Conservatives wss held here laet nigbl to consider the Irish proposals of the Government. Lord Salisbury, addressing the meeting, stated Us belief that it wta impassible to place confldaaea in the Irish people, and advocated a policy of coWtißwooe coercion as the only means of restoring order is Ireland. May I*. Lord Saßtbary, at a meeting of the Tory parte laet night, advocated the emigration of a aillioa of btob to Manitoba. Be expressed the oouviettoa ttet a dieeolulion wae imminent. The Liberal diMMttonto decline to vote far K«m Buie even ae anabetraot principle. The minimum majority Mai net fa* ntoMtoto to anpee^totyil.a'tdpoean^rit.may amount to tt>. MrOhamherlaia and Lord Earnngton teen haem reconciled. It it Mgtottd that tte debato an the Has t»i« Bill will be mflatoatly ndnmetdto altownfndlrtatom being taken otoCnatdv not I