CABLE BREVITIES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4659, 27 February 1894, Page 2

CABLE BREVITIES.

Drought in N. Queensland, stock dying in large numbers. Bioh gold discovery in S. Australia, 70oz per ton. Deficit in Victoria for current year £270,000. Head cashier in Austrian Treasury Department absoonded with 100,000 florins.' Cyclone in Mauritius, A train blown into a river and 50 person killed. Civil war in Honduras ended with the liberals victorious. American politicians still wrangling over the tariff question, -f' Association football match between Wales and Ireland wonby tho former by four goals to one, The Sultan has presented the Khedive with a'palace on the Bosphorus. A large number of miners are leaving N.S.W. for the Coolgardie gold-, fields in Western Australia. A Russia has arranged for a navwj station and ports in the Median tanean, JH Nowb bas been received of tkflfl arrival at Monto Video of Royal Tar with the "New AuAHj emigrants, "^^^fl One of the crew of Massilia, which has from London, issufferin^^^m pox. k^k^k^k^km A warrant hag bee^H^^H Steele, at^^H^^H alleged defalcation^^^^^Hß Cofij^^^^^^H supr^^^^^^^H tho Tarawera W^^^^^^^fl fiuenoa Ay^H^^^^^HH the advice againgJ^^^^^^HH^^^^l

Oar slock sale end Ewe Fair was held in the Glover Boad 'yards, Hawottt, on Wednesday, the 21at inat. Tho entries consisted Almost : entirely of fat and forward cuttle, very few lines of sheep coming forward. 4 small number attended the sule, but no one evinced any eagerness to buy, arid prices were mnob cosier than they were a fortnight ago. Sheep were particularly dull of sale, and ihn only lines that wo quitted were sold ai very low prices. Wo qnoto; Fat bullooks, &5 17s Gd to £Q; forward bullocks, '■ JM.lOi to £•! 12s fid; 12 lo 18 months flteors, £2loa to £2 lis6d, fatoowß, £3 12b6d toil7b; tows in oalf, £8 10s to U,