CABLE BREVITES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4720, 16 May 1894, Page 2

CABLE BREVITES.

The wives of miners in Maryland, U.S.A., declare that if their husbands strike, they themselves will work the mines.

hum has been received from San Salvador that the Government troops have again defeated the rebels.

A general striko is feared among the seamen in London, who are demanding increased wa,goa.- They have already blocked four vessels.

Fire completely Jutted Messrs Cohen and Levy's premises at Tamworth, N.S.W., yesterday, andflio damago is estimated at £30,000; insurance on the premises and stock amounts to £22,000. Tho tragic suicide of two children is reported from Vienna. A boy and girl, aged nine and eleven,. owing to Dad reportsbcing sent to theirparcnts bythe schoolmastor, clasped hands togethor, and drowned themselves in the Danube. They left a letter, containing the words: —" There is no happiness in life." The Eight Hon. Mundella has resigned the Presidency of the Board of Trade, He explains that he is conscious, of his innocence, bm) resigns to avoid crippling the administrative freedom of tho Board of Trade, with which body the further proceedings in regard to the New Loan and Mercantile Agency- Company

The St. Potersburgh correspondent of : the London Telegraph wires that a prominent citizen of Tomsk, who for Tears had kept the secret, recently told ] his wife and friends that he had during his boyhood escaped from the Siberian i mines. He was arrested immediately, flogged, and sent back to the mines. |