CABLE BREVITIES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4726, 21 May 1894, Page 3

CABLE BREVITIES.

At tho Wesleyan Conference at Adelaide a motion in favour of the union of the Methodist .Churches throughout Australasia was carried bylQltgli Tho Supreme Court of Scrvia lias declared tl;Vthe ukase to reinstate tho ex-King Milan is illegal. Intelligence has been received that 6even policemen were killed during a riot in Managua, the capital of Nicaragua. The authorities took extreme steps to restore order, and arresting six of tho leaders who had been directing the mob, ordered them

to be 'shot at once. An important Labour Conference lias qponetl at Brisbane to deal with the question of reduction of shearers' wages and the new agreement insisted upon by the Pastoralists' Union. Sir'Charlcs Tapper, replying to Sir J. Pender's letters in Tho Times, considers that there would be no difficulty in working the Pacific cable on the terms laid down at the Postal Conference in Wellington, The existing companies, bo asserts, receive £2,000,000 in subsidies, Two hundred London cab-owners, possessing 1500 cabs, have agreed to the Union terms, There is little in-

convenience to the travelling public, , ...jiiaiilistaiuling that 9000 men are 3E Tlie cab-owners assert that the drivers do not divulge the amount of their daily receipts, and always retain ss, also that they sublet cabs for a portion of a day. The Benin Miners' Congress has approved of the legal eight hours' day in the mines, The Northumberland and Durham miners alone opposed the pi'oposal,nnddenounccd the British Premier and Home Secretary for stupid advocacy of the jSglit Hours Bill - .