CABLE BREVITIES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4723, 17 May 1894, Page 3

CABLE BREVITIES.

The German miners are discussing tho question of a legal eight-hours day, Cholera is prevalent in seven provinces in the south of Russia. Tho Great Aurora mine in Michigan is 011 fire, and a great many of the miners who were belowwhenthe outbreak occurred, have been unable to escape. There is au epidemic of suicide in Paris, and several deaths of students and children are reported, Forty members of Coxey's bands have been sentenced to long terms of imprisonment for seizing a train. About 7000 London cabmen go 011 strike unless the owners reduce the hiring charge to 3s per day. Some 4000 have declined to join in the movement, Her Majesty the Queen has telegraphed to tho Khedive expressing pleasure at his proposed visit to Paris and London next month, and inviting him to Windsor, The recent action of Marshal Peixoto, President of Brazil, in the pursuit of the Brazilian refugees on hoard tho Portuguese warships, has led to the rupture of friendly relations with the Portuguese Government. All unusually large number of boating accidents were recorded throughout Englaud yesterday. At Ipswich a party of six people were drowned.

The elections in Newfoundland are causing, a good deal of excite-

ment. In St. John's those opposed to fresh elections broke out in riot, mid defeated the Government supporters, The struggle was a desperate one, and many empty carriages were thrown over the cliffs, A peculiar case is reported from Poln, tho chief naval station of Austria, Some time ago a wealthy lady loft a bequest for the poor and sick of Pola, but the trustees in whom the money was rested excluded Jews from participation in the bequest, on the ground that legally the latter were not included in the terra " human beings." The matter was referred to tlio Appeal Court, which reversed the decision of the trustees, and included the Jews on tho grounds of ancient law.