CABLE BREVITIES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4724, 18 May 1894, Page 3

CABLE BREVITIES.

Tho Italian Chamber of Deputies refuses to reduce tho Army vote, Tho Miners' Congress has opened at Berlin, A million operatives are represented. The .Chinese Government is devoting £3,000,000 to celebrate the 60th ; birthday of the Empress Dowager., Scnor Canovns des Castillo, addressing the Cortes, declared that it was impossible that any one nation should hold tho keys of Gibraltar. Some of Coxey's industrial army seized and capsized a ferry boat at Yakima,Washington, with tho result that nine persons were drowned.

About 1000 students from Oxford University marched in procession in an excited state to the railway station, as a protest against the rustication of a section of the students of Christ Church College owing to recent disorder in the College arising from strict discipline. Mitchell, a man who had supplanted an evicted farmer at Castlebur, was attacked by a body of roughs, and badly cut about the licad and limbs, 'His life is despaired of. Several arrests have been made.

T)i(; arrests made in connection with the recent Nihilist outrage at St. Petersburg have given a deathblow to the impending revolution, and it will require years for the Nihilists to rc-organiso their forces. The London cab-owners assert, in reply to the demands of the men, that they are unable to increase the wages, as the. profits do not exceed ;> per cent. The cabmen, by a very large majority, resolved to' go out on .strike. ;>OOO men have joined the Union, and offered (lie owners 1 15s a day for tho use of the cabs. The men are stationing strong pickets to overawe the new hands, A tire broke out ina baseball stand in Jioston, andspreading with alarming rapidity destroyed buildings extending over 12 acres, Some 500 families have been rendered homeless, and it is estimated that the damage will notfall short of 1,000000, dollars, Tho Boston fire was the work of an incendiary, News lias been received from the New Hebrides of the destruction by lire Dili April, of Dr Lamb's mission station at Antbrym including the whole of his equipment. Fortunately the new buildings recently sent to the island by the New Zealand Clmrch had not been erected and therefore escaped destruction. The mission parly has returned to Sydney.