CABLE BREVITIES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 1769, 3 May 1894, Page 3

CABLE BREVITIES.

The death roll in Greece from the earthquakes is 700 and 20,000 people are homeless. The Welsh Church Disestablishment Bill has been read a first time. Serious floods in Canada from the River Noir overflowing its banks, Twenty persons were drowned. Thirty thousand masons iu Vienna have struck for shorter hours. A telegram from the Argentine Republic stales that Mr Lane, promoter of tho New Australia settlement in Paraguay, has been deposed from tho leadership, and the colony is breaking hp, Five companions of tho Anarchist Pallas, who was shot for exploding a bomb among the ofllcers at a review in Barcelona in September last, have been sentenced to death for complicity in the outrage. The latest reports represent the road to the Coolgardie goldfields as being in a deplorable condition. One stage—a distance of CO miles—is absolutely without water. It is stated that there is only one week's supply of provisions on the field. An escapee from New Caledonia successfully resisted immediate extradition in Sydney last week on tho ground that Im is a British subject, Further consideration of the case has been adjourned till October, to admit of the receipt of proofs from Eogland as to tho man'B identity.