CABLE BREVITIES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4653, 20 February 1894, Page 3

CABLE BREVITIES.

Gladstone becoming blind. defeated at Rio, died of Bmall-poi. Anarchibta scare in London—drastic measures taken. Further annexations of territoiy by Capo Government. Death jnp.S.A, of Frank Bjrne, an Irishlnvincible."' ' Yellow fever at Bio. British, Austrian, find Fortpgnese warshjpp and merchant' men affected. Explobion on German cruiser, thirtynjne of the orew killed' lnatantaneoualy. Five hundred Finlandera drifted to sea on an ice-floe; a resouo party sent out, Peall beat Memmott, VictoriaD champion ,by 15 points in billiard match of . 7000 up. , i Brutality of Russian Qolonel causes his j officers to murder him. - Strained relations betweed France and I Portugal, latter refusing to to safegaurd I Interests of Frenoh investers in Portu- J guese railways, French minister recalled from Lisbon. A committee of the French Chamber of Deputtehaa recommonded that preserved meat factories be erected to prevent the troops being dependent on foreign supplies. f Id consequence of the Adelaide unemployed'" dofying the by-law -against protessions, i fotce of (JQ - troopora (Kb-' peraed another attempted demndstratioh i yesterday, arresting two of the leaders, a and seizing thobannera, Theuuemployed, 1 however, aneinbled atMontefiure Hill, c where several inflammatory were do- . "" livered. - One leader incited the men to j take possession ot St. Peter's Cathedral; but better counsels prevailed, and the i demonstration was prevented.