CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1855, 9 July 1886, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

ANOTHER RUSSIAN MOVE. FIGHTING ON TH;; MONTENEGRO FRONTIER. CONVICTS FOR NEW CALEDONIA. FATAL POLITICAL RIOT IN DUBLIN. London, July 6. Severe fights have taken place on the frontier between the Turks and Montenegrins. Mr Patrick Egan has summoned an Irish League Convention to meet in Chicago on 18th August to discuss Irish affairs. The Orange Workman’s Club in Dublin was last night attacked by a body of rioters, when the occupants of the building fired npon the mob and killed one man and wounded thirty six others. Seventy five Orangemen were subsequently arrested by the police. It is expected that the Exhibition will be prolonged until December. Mr Gladstone is writing letters daily to the newspapers, which are querulous, arrogant, and almost insulting in their tone. July 7. The European press consider that Batonm ceasing to be a free port is a prelude to denouncing the Berlin Treaty, and is a blow at England. The first Australian parcels post has been despatched, and some ceremony was made on the occasion by the postal authorities. The owners of the fishing smacks seized by the Canadian Government refuse to pay the fines for illegal fishing in Canadian waters, and have appealed to the American Congress, H.M.S. Miranda, at present on the Australian station, has been recalled, and will be dismantled. Constantinople, July 6. The Russian Government has notified to the Powers that Batonm, on the Black Sea, has ceased to be a free port. Paris, July 6. The first batch, consisting of 360, of a large number oi convicts under sentence of transportion, have been shipped for New Caledonia.

Svdnet, July 8. During the sitting of the Assembly last night the galleries were cleared, and it has since transpired that Sir Henry Patkes afterwards gave notice of a vote of want of confidence in the Qorernpaent.