CABLE BREVITIES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4662, 2 March 1894, Page 3

CABLE BREVITIES.

| Madame Patey died suddenly at! Sheffield. Tbe Colonial Institute in London refuses to amalgamate with the Imperial. A bank clerk at Johannesburg embezzles LBOOO from Bank of South Africa: French butchers desirous of experimenting in sale of Australian frozen mutton.Terrible explosion at Rio on board the Venus, a rebel warship, 83 killed and 50 wounded, During a heavy thunderstorm at Williamßtown (Vic.) a meteorite crashed into a dwelling-house, bring-1 iilg down tliechtmuey, English holders of Oamaru bonds of 1879 are accepting a reduction ol 20 per cent, in the value of. tho securities, and will nil accept 4 per cent, interest provided the Government guarantees payment, Tho N.Z. Land Association has received the following telegram from London, dated 27th inst.Wool.— The sains opened to-day at the level of last sales, except inferior greasy merino, The attendance of botb Home and Foreign buyers is good, arid competition between thom fairly active. The total quantity available, including wool hi'ld over from last series, is 314,000 bales, 67,000 bales of which have been forwarded to the manufacturing districts direct. Particulars have reached Moscow of a reported skirmish between the German and Russian soldiers on the frontier. It appears that a squidron of Russian dragoons, noticing a number of Prussian Uhlans firing at a frontier post bearing the Imperial arms, called on the party to desist, Receiving a reply in the negative, the Russians formed np and attacked tbe Uhlans, driving them back, and pursuing them across the frontier into German territory. Several men on both sides are reported to have been killed.