NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2713, 30 September 1887, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

London, September 27.

The natives of Ponope, one of the Carolinb Islands, irritated at the arrest of a Protestant missionary,'have retaliated by killing the Governor, and several of the Spanish garrison. Spanish men-of-war have been despatched to the island, and intend to inflexibly repress the natives.

London, September 28.

"The police, while engaged evictinj a tenant at Parteer, : were savagel resisted by the villagers.

The lawless condition of Ireland increasing.

' A .Chinese transport vessel has been wrecked, and the English captain and 300 of the Chinese crew perished.

A letter has been received from Emm Bey, Bfcating ■ that he declines to return with Stanley, and that he will' strive to carry out Gordon's work in the Soudan. Germans assert that the recent shooting incident occurred on German territory;

Paris, ! September 27.

, Prince .Bismarck has communicated' to M. FMrenp, Foreign Minister, his deep regret' at' th^recent deplorable iiioi'deiit.the feontier, and has '..promised' the -fullest reparation if the Germans.: aro/found to have been

THE' I .INTERNATIONAL' YACHT " ' RACE. '

York, September 27,

THe first of the races for the American .Gup was sailed to-day over the Club course, and was won by the American jaolilr-Volunteer";by ; 18minutes. During the race the wind dropped,, and it was feared there, was no bM'ce.of finißhing;within the prescribed" •tiriie, but the-breeze subsequently'freshened and allowed the completion pf the course. 1 .. • London, September 27.

'• Betting at the start"was slightly in .favor of the Volunteer. The wind was extremely : light and the weather hazy. Vast crowds witnessed the race wljich was followed by hundreds of steamers and yachts. "When half the distance had been covered," to Volunteer had a lead of two miles, eventually winning by four miles. September 28.

Within fifteen minutes after the start the Thistle was becalmed, but the Volunteer caught a wind which gave her a lead of two miles, before the Thistle felt a breath, and, as the Volunteer had a fresher wind, she was enabled to increase her lead,"; winning % 19} minutes; . Later.

The English yacht Thistle, during her race with th« Volunteer, was

seriously impededby an exoursion craft on the run both out and home,, The owner is dissatisfied with the result of ihe race and. has expressed his buspicion that the bottom of the yacht ;had been "doctored." '>./