CABLE BREVITIES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4656, 23 February 1894, Page 3

CABLE BREVITIES.

Anarchists still busy in Europe. i Heavy weather predicted between ' Hobait and New Zealand, Hungarian peasants crucify a woman, asserting her to be a witch. Panic at a school iu Stockholm, eleven children killed. Unemployed difficulty continues in England, agitators advocate the burning of London. Horrible crime in Queensland. A womai.-outraged and murdered. The crime supposed to be the work of Javanese. American desperado about to be ■ arrested opens fire, the constable and two persons killed, others mortally injured, Victorian Cabinet has appointed the following new Board of Railway Commissioners:— Messrs Kydtr, (Ohairman)'Woodrofie, and Lookhead. Victorian Cabinet deoided to grant a bonus of £2 per ton for first 500 tons of beet sugar produced in tho colony. .3 The Manobester shipping firm negotiating with Sir A. Clarke respecting the establishment of a line of steamers with the" colonies is M'Kerrow and Co., formerly of New Zealand, N.S.W. Premier announces tbat Civil semnts will be paid half salary except'when injured while on duty, Then tbey will receive full pay and medical expenses, Russian Government threatens that if French'increase corn duties and hamper Russian exports tbey will terminate tbe existing commercial treaty. In reply, the French Cabinet regrets tbe position, but explains tbat the incroaso is demanded by'tbo people, .During recent fighting at Rio, the insurgents captured 18 guns and! burned tbe tbe arsenal. They lost W men and the Loyalists 730. Glad* stone in reply to a question, said he was unable to treat the Brazilian insurgents as belligerents in the absence of any evidence that tbey had formed a. Government or occupied ' jitorritory. ■