CABLE BREVITIES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4725, 19 May 1894, Page 3

CABLE BREVITIES.

_ Mr Fred. Broughton, dramatist 18 dcftd. The death is announced of Princt Clovis Bonaparte. The police in Liege are trying k nnravol an international An'archisl plot. Nows lias been received of n sovero earthquake at Kars, in the Caucasus. Nineteen persons were injured. " Mr Roberts, M.L.C., of Melbourne, Ims failed, with liabilities amounting to £200,000, and assets valued at £115,000. London Truth declares that the Imperial Institute is covertly touting for Fellows, and that the Post Office is flooded with circulars detailing dinner menus nnd various Band performances nnd shows. It has been discovered that boys Bet firo to tho base-ball stand 'in Boston, in connection with which forty children are missing. Floods have taken place at Wis- • Minnesota. Houses and HHflMKglvo been washed away. "The isWinrn'ted at.over two million do'.kW^ A number of masters have now accepted the London cabmen's terns, Two hundred of the men on strike overturned a hansom iu Park Lane, breaking the driver's leg. Several masters who are not in the dispute; refused to let their cabs, fearing that violence might he attempted oh the part of the strikers. The press generally takes the part of tho men on strike, nnd concurs in the opinion that tho supply of cabs is excessive. The residents of West s London, and travellers on the railway are those most inconvenienced by the strike. The Hon T. ¥. Bayard, United States Ambassador in London, has informed the British Government that America desires to withdraw from the provisions of the Berlin Treaty, providing that her citizens' rights in Samoa are protected. _.. I 1 ! 6 Agents-General of Victoria supporting Yew > Zealand in regard to iamu,.? (..« representatives of Queensland and South Australia have not yet received any hat-ructions on the point. New South WaSk/is urging a British protectorate,