CABLE BREVITIES.
Earthquakes in Oreece'liave caused great destruction of life and propeity. Owing to ill health of Jabes: Balfour, be has been' removed from gaol to a private liotise. Tho idea of New Zealand Control of Samoa is favourably regarded in Europe, SirHeorge Grey thinks that English-speaking people should control the whole of the Pocitic Islands.
Chairman ol Committee of Enquiry into tlie state of French navy, reports that none of tho toipedoos in use are of a practical type, anil ihe greatest confusion prevails in the administration of the Novsl Department. Governor of Tasmania, Lord Goruianston, had a narrow escape from losing his life while on a visit to the Lakes district, He mistook tho nature of the groundrjindsfink in reeds up to his armpits, but a constable hold him up till assistance arrived. : An emergency man named Donovan was evicted from a farm at Kantark, County Cork, and beaten to death. He was also shot in the body by one of the evicting party,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 471, 24 April 1894, Page 2
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166CABLE BREVITIES. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 471, 24 April 1894, Page 2
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