CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 2005, 15 December 1886, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

London, December 11, Five thousand Bossiao troops will winter at Odessa. The agreement between England and Germany greatly curtails Zanzibar territory in favor of Germany. Hanlao is in good condition, and is delighted at Beach accepting bis challenge to row on tbs Nepean River. A serious boating accident occurred yesterday at Southport, when a lifeboat capsized, and thirteen of its occupants were drowned. After the first lifeboat had oapsiaad. a second was despatched to the neons •I the same vessel for which the pterions boat was bound. This met with the earns lets sa its predecessor. Iha boat capsized, and 14 persona won drowned. December IS. A note has been addressed by the Porte to the British Government intimating a deaira that they should diaenss the question of tbs ovaenation of Egypt by the British fjwss. The Earl of Iddesleigb, Foreign Secretary, in reply, has promised to consider tbs Porte’i request without delay. Aa attempt made to blow up the residence «f the King af Bonmania by means of dynamite was partially successful. Paais, December 11.

M. Goblet has sn acceded in forming a Cabinet. For the present be will ineeeed M. de Frey sum as Foreign Secretary. General Boulanger retaining his position as MfniWw of War. and Admiral Aube that of Minister of Marine and tbs Colonies. In tbs Chamber of Deputies today. U. Goblet aanonnood that tbs new Ministry woold follow tbstemgn policy of M. do Freyeumt, bat premiesd internal reforms.

December IS. The pcaitian accepted by M. Goblet in the French Ministry is regared as ephemeral.

The fallowing extract from the Gardener’* Munlw dsaaroaa wid* publicity. If it k lo be behaved, " titt early morning eook ” may bo sOeaead with oooe and eerteinty at ■ trifling expanse. Heoeeforth, then, the b* should ri«it orory offender with romoreelooo aororityln io admitted that in the aet of crowing a bird stands up, and then atntebeo Us neefc to the (all extent. A email loth, loosely soepended about eighteen inebeo above the porch will obviate this. It in no way interfere* with the bird'* moating; but the moment chanticleer contemplate* a nniaanee, the _ awinging lath cornea gently mto eontaet with bis comb, and effectually atop* him. I have a dosen bird*, and none of thorn praams to crow till the boor that I lot thorn out.

The Victorian aawmillen have for soma time peat agitated lor an inereaae in the tembar dotioa. They represented t* the Oovonment that the trade iain a languishing eonditioD, in eoneeqaenoe of the larger importation* from America and Taamtnia. and that aevaral mill* had been oloeed, and other were working at a loea, and mnat ahortiy be (topped if the Victorian trad* were not protected by the impoaition of a higher tariff on imported timber, so a* to raise the price of hardwood in the colony. Chief Secretary Deakin anggaeted that the deprem ■on wu partly canoed by the ezhanation of timber land* in the Colony, and waa partly owing to the depreeaed condition ol the mining industry ; but he promised to make a fall investigation ol the matter, and submit the results to the Cabioet. This premise baa been earned out, and Mr Deakin has informed the representatives ol the trade that the Government do not see their way to aeeede to the request for an increase ol the dnties, or to afford relief in any way at the present time.