CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1871, 16 August 1886, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

A TWOPENNY AUSTRALIAN POST. EUROPEAN ANIMOSITIES. THREATENED RAID ON MEXICO. CHOLERA IN NAPLES. London, August 12. The English postal authorities favor the establishment of a twopenny post card systern with Australia. General Ignatieff states that Russia and France are eager for revenge against Germany. It is reported that an English protectorate has been proclaimed over the Ellice Group, situated between 175 and 180 E. long, and 5 and 10 S. lat. Intelligence has been received from Texas that a large number of Texans threaten to make a raid on Mexico for (he purpose of releasing an American journalist who has been imprisoned there for libel. The Right Hon. R. Burke, has been ap> pointed Governor of Madras. August 13. A dastardly outrage has been perpetrated at Derry, As an Orange procession was parading (he streets, bottles containing gunpowder with lighted fuses attached were thrown amongst the processionists, but fortunately no one was harmed. At a colliery accident at Woodend, Lancashire, thirty miners were entombed. Lord Wolseley, speaking at Sboebniyness, expressed a hope that the colonies would send a Volunteer team to England during the Jubilee year, and also that a British team might be sent to compete at' colonial rifle meetings. The last cricket match, Australians v AH England, was won by the latter with one innings and 231 runs to spare. Naples, August 12. Cholera has broken out in this city, and fonr deaths bare already occurred. August 13. The cholera epidemic is increasing along the Adriatic, and is spreading into the ulterior.