CABLE BREVITIES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4643, 9 February 1894, Page 3

CABLE BREVITIES.

Rip blockaded, London wheat market weak, Cape Colony general election a viotory for Rhodes, London unemployed threaten to use explosives. Hardship and dissension in " New Australia." A proportion of 17 to 11 for Prohibition in Ontario, Discontent among London dockers; possible strike in view. British India Go's steamers fired; incendiarism suspected, Fire in Melbourne boarding-house; one inmate burned to death' Conciliation Board established by Adelaide master bakers and employees. Retrenchment in N.8.W., civil servants' salaries to be further reduced, Queenslank Deposit Bank failod H carry out reconstruction sohemo, Another scone in N.S, W.,Chamber, an unreserved apology prevents committal of offending member, Indian rupee paper quoted at £69 p« 1000 rupees, the lowest price Bince the Mutiny, Colonial office received confirmatory reports regarding French attack on ! British frontier police in Sierre Leone, no details are given. President of Bank of N. Z., at meeting of directors., said the bank would aid in the reconstruction of Loan and Mercantile. Any aotion taken would not prejudice the position of the Bank.