CABLE BREVITIES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4660, 28 February 1894, Page 2

CABLE BREVITIES.

Yellow fover raging at Rio. English wheat is averaging 24s sd, which is record price. , American silver mines closing on account of the low price of the metal. 1 l'ha Austrian cashier who absconded with 100,000 florins has committed suicide. Numbers of Anarchists fearing' arrest aro loaving 'London for the continent. Heavy rains have now fallen in the Queensland drought-stricken districts, The' Norwegian steam whaler Antarctic willleave Melbonrnesbortly on a whaling cruise in the South Polar regions, The directors of theN.S.W. Stockton mine have declined the men's terms, and employed other labour. They refuse to treat with the miners as a body. A woMnown French writer has boen sentenocd to two years' im> prisonment and ordered to (ay a fine] of one thousand francs for publishing a book extolling Anarchy, English War Office recoups the loss entailed through the adoption of the eight hours system !d dockyards by reducing, sick pay and overtime, and abolißhiogpaymenton bank holidays. Cardinal Moran, in the course of a speech, at/Sydney, said he favoured a return to" the merliieval laws prohibiting- a faan from .holding more than 800 acres of land or from receiving more'' than 5 per cent, interest on money lent. V JTl]O London Daily, (llironicle con-> |emns the minutes on Australasian /finances written.by, Mr Peel,and adds that- nothing could; afford.morejubt provocation to the entire' separation of the colonies than the lecturing, of responßibile statesmen; by. .junior clerks.