CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2075, 1 June 1887, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

London, May 28. The following arc uuuouucod as tha only official celebrations of her Majesty’* Jubilee :—The service in Westminster Abbey, tho Military Review at Aldershot, tlie Naval and Military Review at Portsmouth, and tho parade of 30,000 of tho Home district volunteers before tha

Queen at Buckingham Palace. May 20. The Paris Gaulois estimates that 250 lives were lost iu the OperaComique fire. Tweuty-fivc persons were found suffocated iu the drinking bar, and 18 in tho green-room. Rioting has occurred at Meiford (P Wexford), where the wealthy farmers are refusing to pay church tithes, and 21*00 farm laborers compelled the police to stop distraining for tho amounts. The unemployed iu Dublin held a demonstration today. Forming into a procession, they marched through the city carrying a black flag surmounted with a skull and cross bones. The gathering was dispersed by tho jiolice. _ The fire which originated in tho New York tram stables was got under at 6 o’clock yesterday morning. One life was lost. The stables, besides tho horses, contained thirty tram cars and an enormous quantity of fodder, the whole of which were destroyed. Twenty other buildings were also burned down. Brussels, May 28.

The colliery strikes wo becoming more general, and are extending throughout the country. Great precautions aro being taken by tho jKilicc and military authorities to prevent rioting. Ottawa, May 28.

Mr O’Brien has left Canada for New York. His mission is generally regarded as being a total failure.