CABLE BREVITIES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4646, 13 February 1894, Page 3

CABLE BREVITIES.

English wheat market lifeless, Shah of Persia will tour Europe next Jpne. Argentine Press oppose Jabez Balfour's extradition. Frenoh banker arrested, defalcations 34,000,000 francs. Russian merchants! pleased with proposed commercitl treaty with Germany. Station in England. "Jack the "Bipjsr" reported to ■ be in a London 'hospital, Ihief Justiqe Coleridge about Sir Charles Bussell raenhis successor. one accorded a great welon his return httmr of Frenoh Socialist paper ;d for threatening President ! reports reveal shooking barin a Bussian prison, canoiilleged to be of common ) owing to,insufficient food' Carbone, Crown advocate at iplying to the Privy Council, tat the Pope is unable to see ;o validate the mixed mariludedin the dispute between ;h authorities and the Yatihomas Salt, presiding at a )f tbo New Zealand Midland Company, said the directors Mined N.Z, Government id with a vigorous effort ise the million and s quarter ecessary te complete the eaßt Britain, America, and Italy recognise the Bio insurgents rents. One of the Govern> pedo boats ran ashore, and inder have returned to Per- , • -The commanders of three isident's warships have been m the ground of being busliars have been received of satire: of the French troops abdotoo. The troops were while asleep in camp at hd the; Taaregs, a tribe of vbrtiirned theßtacked arms, venting the eoldiera from apfeßoahier and eight other mnpn-commissioned officors, Stive soldiers are missing, threaten to ottaokTim-

buotoo, which Captain Phillipe holds with 800 rifles and six cannon. He has only a limited supply of food. In tho Chamber of Deputies, the Premier, M, CaHimirPerier, replying to a question as to the massacre of the French troops on the west coast of Africa, declared that the Government had no intention of evacuating Timbuotoo, which is threatened by the Tuaregs. Reinforcements, ho said, wore advanoing rapidly to assist Captain Phillipo, and if necessary further assistance would be seat from Algeria.