CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2046, 23 March 1887, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

London, March 20.

H.E.H. the Prince of Wales has started for Berlin, to be present at the festivities in connection with the Emperor William’s 90th birthday. Tallow—Australian,average quality, beef, 23s Gd ; mutton, 28s. IVow Zealand frozen mutton, prime quality, to 4Jd. Germany, Austria, and Italy have agreed that the peculiar interests of each drmand mutual protection. By Laly having agreed to assist Austria, it is considered the effect will be to paralyse Russia, and leave France at the mercy of Germany.

It is reported that Austria and Russia have each 300,000 troops massed in the vicinity of the Galician frontier.

Father Kellar, parish priest of YouSlhal, was arrested for refusing to appear as a witness in a case against a defaulting tenant, and was yesterday brought to Dublin. At all the towns and villages en route he received ovations from the populace. On being brought before tbo Court in Dublin he refused to answer questions, and was committed to prison for contempt of Court. Large crowds escorted him to prison. March 21. The Executive of the Nihilists have detailed 50 of their number to execute the Czar. 8x Pexebsbuuo, March 20. Wholesale arrests of persons implicated in the late plot against the life i f the Czar continue to be made in this city. It is rumored that several 1 dicers have been secretly executed.