Thursday.

Kaikoura Star, Volume XIV, Issue 739, 18 May 1894, Page 5

Thursday.

LONDON, May 14 Pall Mall Gazette declares that British fleet is doomed unless Mediterranean section is increaased, instead of the Channel squadron. Tbe paper adds that in Mediterranean waters the French vessels outnumber the British, have twice the guns and thrice the practice, besides which more of the shores are lined with torpedoes. About 7000 London cabmen strike tomorrow, unless owners reduce hiring charge to 3s a day ; some 4000 have declined to join in movement. Earl Lindsay, one of representative Peers for Scotland, dead. Death announced of Professor Henry Morlev, LL.D., aged 74 vears. 'ST PETERSBURG, May 15 Cholera is prevalent in 7 provinces in South Russia. LISBON, May 15 Recent action of Marshall Peixoto, President of Brazil, in pursuit of the Brazilian refugees on board Portuguese warships, has led to rupture of friendly relations with Portuguese Govt. The Embassies in Portugal recalled. WASHINGTON, May 16 Forty members of Coxey’s band sentenced to long terms of imprisonment for seizing a train. ST JOHNS, May 14 Elections in Newfoundland creating good deal of excitement. NEW YORK, May 14 Wives of miners in Maryland declare that if their husbands strike they will, themselves, work the mines.