CABLE BREVITIES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4651, 17 February 1894, Page 2

CABLE BREVITIES.

fellow fover at Rio, ■,.s Slight earthquake at Port Darwin, War oloud in S.E, Europe, a oatastrophe considered to be imminent, Lion tamer badly worried at San . Francisco. _ Polish journalists arrested ou susm'nion of being Anarchists, French police report S& Anarchies are Jiving - ja' Jjondon who «re "warftcd.'; ' '■ - > , y Disastrous firo at Soochow, 1600 houses burned, : ' ' ' ' German Emperor set up a commission to dißcuS3':,tlie silver question, I '' Bill introduced in'tf.RW, providing"'flogging' 'as' a 1 punishment for. ljurglary arid la'rrikinJßfii." :: '\ '"•' Queen o{ Spain gave audience fo delegates of 2fj,QQQ tforkraeri'pwmjs? ■ ing to wsiiiftiij Upjons against |l)e Socialists, An official report received from, French officers regarding the second Sierra Leone incident, Thoy a&io British of seeking to • foroe Uo villaeera under French influence to construct roads. The report goes on to say that the French police intervened when the British troops attnoke'd them but wore rejgked. At, a meeting' of holders to National 'iQv.<tgage': and Agency Company of Ne\v Zealand, Mr"(j!renfell, ;i 'thß. cbiiirmah, 'said the invetoenls were being 1 temporarily reduced; AcaJl of £1 Vould'proba'bfy beshurffy male. '.'. /'*' •'• . Addressing the London Chamber, of Goujmerce, Mf Bcid'sajd that Yiojjjria did not intend to borrow, but to go in sternly for retrenchme.it and the opening of new markets.' Imperial reciprocity was essential. Queensland Court has quashed conviction of Mangid or. the charge of being concerned in tlie Mount Morgan gold robbery, on ground that conviction was secured in'wrongful adnila- , sion "of evltjenoe with 1 -'fl-gard statements ma|e : by prisonrr to dew^ _ N,B.W. KIJ introduced in lj6gMtive Gounpj'l makjng it a penaloMpg to incite infants }o net'or nomsr, Ibe Bill js drawn on similar lines!'to fjord HepsohpU's 'njeasu're, wbicji passpd the B'o'usb of Jjorrjq in J. 892. with the exception that tlie local Bill provides against verbal inoitoment, while Lord HersohelPs measure was imited to incitement by documont, .. Mackenzießowell,Canadian Miais;er for Trade, who recently visited iflsMia, a meoting 'of Manufacturers' 'Association-' in Doronlo, announced Government was irepared to send a resident, agent to Australia to take charge of Canadian rading affairs, and "woold support lonstruction of Paeifio cable on certain" onditiom. A conference' on v Kf! natter between Australia and Canada, n whiol) Hawaii would probably join, rould take plaoe at Ottawa in June, -