CABLE BREVITIES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4630, 26 January 1894, Page 2

CABLE BREVITIES.

■CzarinareooTered from influenza. :: English peer robbed of J614,Q00 at Monte; Carlo.: - y-::\ ;;.-. : 'j:-. ; .;-'-; Australian nines to be sold' at Imperial Institute. '■.:■ ;, : ' ' Cape Colony gold export for 189 J valued at £5,250,000, ..:. :'" Vessel-' in Atlantio severely damaged by tidal wave.;' ; . ; .Further : disagreement between D,S,A,: President and Demooratia. Senatore over Tariff Bill." V. ■; - Spenoer Balfour, Liberator swin> : dler at last arrested in Buenos Ayres, . Irish'Americanß advocate a return to "dynamite and murder," ;■ ■ 'Colonial Office favourably reoejyjpg Huddart-Parker'a appeal for^ttl Silver problem still business paralysed in Shapg|Hl Hong Kong. ";;';■,'sVCanadaolaimi £155,000 compenjation under eward of Behring Sea Commission, "■'.-'' ■'.' . '.'(■. - Interview to take. place between Emperor' William^.and 'B&ftrk', : Germans greatly gratified. - '■ Terms offered to Lobengula, A home and pension to be granted to the deposed Monarch. 'Crisis in Servia, the young king in trouble. Coalition Ministry to be formed with a strong military element.' '". Strained relations between Khedive and Lord Cromer who demandß an apology for. strictures passed by Khedive on British officers in Egypt, Bt. Hon. A.J.Balfour, speaking at Manchester, advocates establishment of Imperial Defence Department, and states that the loss of the colonies would be England's ruin. The active naval preparations at present carried on by Russia and France are he declares direoted. against England,: Sydney Labour Conference passed the following resolution yesterday : " Th'ataß the existing constitutions of the second Chamber and, the present method of Party Government are. unsatisfactory, ■ this' Conference .recommends the various colonies' to consider the question, with a view to working on a common basis in-the near future." Majority of members of English Labour Commission regard universal Eight Hours' System as impracticable, and do not favour a separate La» bour. Department, . Minority of Commissioners in favour of the working week being fixed at 48 hours, if all trades approved by a majority of threefifths of those employed. ,*£