CABLE BREVITIES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4654, 21 February 1894, Page 2

CABLE BREVITIES.

0 Severe oarthquako in Now Calc- - donia. Boisterous weather off Queensland i, coast.' ' ". ' • •! ? tndian deficit—3so lacs qfrqpeeg. j; Agitation' against House of Lords e still continues in England,, '" '" * „ _ Another fire at Oljicogq.. Irjgeq r t diarisni Bi)sppcte(j. p Leaders of Adelaide uuoinploy'ed ■• » fined J£ 10 apiece, * Colonial Oonjerenqo meek at OU '* lawn on June 21st, J Canada demands that Pacific cable , Bhall be wholly British, a 4«9lraliau mjlk sent to London to cpol chambers airiyed in useless con- . diliflo, ■ ■ Two-thirds of yellow fever deaAs,.'" E at Rio are among foreigners," \ ° who drifted to sea on t an ice-floe, rescued, • Deadlock ia U.S.A. House of fie- '• 1 prese.ntatives over silver and coinage ' question. [I Libellers ofN.S.W. Sasjjgs Bank I i j imprisoned. 'I Wholesale resignations in B,mIjmanian army by way of protest l • againßt cavalry inspectors' severity, ■ 1 French explain that recent attack 11. on British troops at Sierra Ltona were oauiredby a native cliief since cutc-d. ■' '" ""' ' l ' *■' Empress QfAnstna'syuoht stranded ,• ' off the Spanish coast. All on board! safely rescued. French Socialists in Chamber of Deputies, demand that the State shall control wheat imports, regulate prices, and abolish middlemen. London Tiroes thinks tho dooision •■ ofthe Victorian Government tilcnd" ** money to farmers, requires utmost caution, as the Government ought not to accept securities which Banks a would reject, The difficulty in connection ■'." the N.S.W. Btockton inine is as far off a settlement as ever.'The morlhavp' declined" lSj a'ccgpfi- the'ofier ofm proprietors, and nearly all the yapftnejos have been filled bv freemen, Whom the owners decline fo dismiss! ■ •British 'Miuister for War has ad. fispd Mrfjeid, the Victorian Com- ' Wißsioner, to consult General jjir Bedvei s Buller regarding the appointment of an Inspeotor-Goneral of tho ■ - colonial military forces. The Borough Belle, toned fr'uni ! the Solomons to Svdney.was wrecked ' near the Chesterfield Group on 30th ' January, Tho crew reached Maokay • after being for 17 days in the boats.'" , , They were reduced to a mouthful of water morninu and evening per man,' ' News has been, received,' from - . America tliat a forger sfandiugin'the '" ] - dock of '[

a Pistol, ordered those present to throw their handa ( «p, and escaped, looking the door behind him, It is believed tuat was seoretly handed to him by an accomplice. The Mercantile Bank cases against Sir Matthew Davies, F. Milledge, and T. B. Muntz have begun in Melbourne.