CABLE BREVITIES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4650, 16 February 1894, Page 3

CABLE BREVITIES.

Italy purchasing 1,500,000 rifles, Servia mobilising her reserves. Biilow, eminent piauist, dead. Glut in the Melbourne wheat market. Severn gales in Germany—many lives lost. Victorian Government Railway Workshops to be closed. Further outlets for frozen meat, a depot to be established at Glasgow. Captor of Parisian Anarchist decorated with Legion of Honour, Colonel Drury, of Queensland, advocates tho union of Colonial and Imperial forces. Blizzard in America—loo lives lost, and a million dollars worth of damage done, i Rich gold discovories in Victoria- J ■ two. men got nine pounds of gold in two hours. i India entering the butter market— ; . trial shipment to be landed in Lon* j ) don at 9d a pound. I Lord Knutsford suggests that the i . time has arrived to abolish the power ' I of reservation ol bills for consideration i of the Crown of small alterations in I the constitution of the colonies, i At the Colonial Institute, General I Chesney advocaied formation of a i Council of the Empire, consisting of I the Prime Minister, sooie members of I the Imperial Cabinet, and the Pre- . miers of the great colonial dominions, I together with some of their colleagues, to deal with Imperial aud Colonial affairs, thus securing a harmonious policy and superseding the . Colonial OlSce. Mr Reid,of Victoria, declared that tho safeguard of the Empiro lay in the kindred interest of the sympathy and blood relationship. ' The task of safeguarding the Empire in future was stupendous, aB the old legislative machinery of England was i unsuited to new countries. Several I speakers eulogised the Australian ' auxiliary squadron.