CABLE BREVITIES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4674, 20 March 1894, Page 3

CABLE BREVITIES.

Oxford won -die University boat race on Saturday last with esse. H.M.Si Ciesceut still proves a failure.

Mr J. Henniker Heaton says his proposals for an Imperial penny post apply to outward raails.and he does not think they'• will affeot colonial revenue.

Tho noted slave dealer Podißlali,' against whom tho British troops have been'opcrating for somo past, has been captured in French territory, About 15,000 file workers in Marseilles have struck work in an endeavour to reduce the daily hours of labour to ten. A strike has occurred at Dale colliery, in the Western New Boulh Wales district, owing to the refusal of the management to reinstate two men who were dismissed for an alleged breach of tho regulations.

The French of Deputies has passed a vote of £6OOO to establish a Minist erfor the Ooionies.

Sir W, V. Haroourt's promise to foice on the Bill for the Disestablishment of the Welsh Church has satisfied, the Welsh members.

Speaking in the House of Commons, Bit Charles Dilk.i Baid ihe War Office wus taking an optimistic view of the delence,question It was essential (hat experts should be appointed to guide Ministers in deuliug with tho defence of the country,

Lord Kosebery bad a most enthusiastic reception at Edinburgh, where he delivered an address. Re complained that his speech on Home Rute iu the House of Lords had been misrepresented, A man named Considine, who was alleged to have been oreating a disturbance at Broken Hill, assaulted two policemen who intei fered, with a crowbar. One was badly injured, and then the Constables fired upon Considine nnd shot him dead.