CABLE BREVITIES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4625, 18 January 1894, Page 3

CABLE BREVITIES.

j Nihilists troubling the Czar. , ■ Anarchists disorderly at Leghorn. ; Earl and Countess of Mar and Kullio sailed in Ophir for Australia,. 1 Chinese Temple at Ningpo burned, 1 over; 300 lives lost. . : . 1 Pall Mall Gazette running its print--1 ing machine by electricity. French by conversion of their 4J per cento to 8| save 68,000,000 franca a year. 10S50 bales to be offered at London wool sales. Prospects of market hopeful, Rev W. Faton assures Lord Eipon that ''Kanaka traffio scarcely more than disguised slavery." Institution of new order to. be called the Star of Australasia advocated by Marquis of Lome at Imperial Institute, London import agents and colonial butter producers forming a new combination for the protection of their own interests. Russia demands access to Fores, an Island belonging to Greece within thirty miles of Athens.' , ttevolt and bloodshed still continues at Bio. Insurgents captured Island of Concicoa: Loyalists bombarded an insurgent hospital and killed twelve patients. Melbourne Marine Board found captain of Tnnterden, (which ran on reef near Macdonnell Bay last month) guilty of gross misconduct, and suspended his certificate for three months, Captain's defence was that accident due to a faulty chart. Cape Times publishes conditions of settlement in Matabeleland. They inolude grants of land for natives. Rhodes insists on Freetrado to assist the products of Cape Colony. ■ Tbe expedition under Captain Wilson bad reached Lobengula's wagon, when the Matabele returned and assailed it. Natives had the advantage in numbers, and surrounded the detachment, The fight lasted for six hours, when, the cartridges giving out, firing ceased. The Matabele found many ol the party who tvere mortally wounded writing farewell messages to their friends. Several of the wounded drew their revolvers, and madea final, but unsuccessful effort, Thenntives piled the bodies of the English in a heap.