CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2097, 27 July 1887, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

London, July 21. The report of experts who have examined the recent shipments of oranges is to the effect that the fruit rapidly decayed because it was conveyed in refrigerators. The dealers are disgusted with the results of the shipments. Counties Cork, Kerry, Limerick, and Clare have been proclaimed to be under the operation of the Irish Crimes Act. July 25. Ten Irish cities, including Dublin, Derry, Belfast, Cork, and fourteen additional counlics, b' - bee; pr'.'J.’.irg.'d to be under the fall operation of the provisions of the Irish I Grimes Act, and twelve ejimtii s have beeu pai iiailv proclaimed, thus eo.upri.-ing the j whole of Ireland, except ceiuda portions of j County Antrim. Sir Charles Clifford has been created a baronet. The under-lauding arrived at by the Eug-li.-h and Russian Commis-ioi eis as to the delimitation of the Afghan fioutier is not approved. The Ameer is entirely opposed to the concessions made to Russia. The Daily News characterises the “ proclamation ” of several counties in Ireland under the Crimes Act as a gross outrage, aud maintains that Ministers must be brought to strict and immediate account. Sydney, July 23. ibeKevDr Wright, of Loudon, Secretary of the British and Foreign Bible Society, who was on a visit to this city, is mysteriously mi-sing. New York, July 23. A sculling race I atweea Il.mlan and bauds'! r was towed today oo Luke Calumet, Puffin .n, Illinois, over a th”<v mile course, and w-.< won by Ilanlan. Time, 20 minute.-. 32 -eo'io,;- The men finished nearly even Gsudaui ’vns disabled. 'hj >.-■ t; i* described as a •• ffzz.c, ’ being rowcu in tl’e dui'.-.t-s. Bir ' •: ■ Jiffy 23. The a' ri-Chinese •; > ■ m being actively proatcu'- J here.