CABLE BREVITIES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4727, 22 May 1894, Page 3

CABLE BREVITIES.

Some'loo London cab owners have yielded to the demands of the men. The British legation in Brazil is pro tccting Portuguese subjects. The Foninsula and Oriental Coin pany's new steamer Caledonia has beci launched at Greenock. v-JWNaand Russia have complctci the details iu connection with their com mercial treaties. Cold stores capable of storing 200 tons of butter and cheese, arc bcin erectedin Tooley street, London, The Turkish Government is sendin 2600 men and fourteen guns to suppres a rising among the Albanians. The two me:i Watson and Dough havo been sentenced to death for tli murder of the Frenchman Eugci: Possett, at Melbourne. The Daily Chronicle silys the Pope deeply grieved at the attitude of tl French Government in recalling tl Papal Nuncios. Some Russians have founded a stcan ship company to trade between Amcrii and Yladivostock, connecting at the la tcr port with the Siberian liailway. Coxey's industrial army is causii trouble in vnrious parts of the Uniti States, aud one of the bands seized trainbelonging to thcMontanaCompan thetraiu subsequently becomingderaile with the result that eight persons wc injured The undergraduates of Oxford Unirc sity, including a number of peers, a protesting agaiust the rustication of tl Christ Church College students. Tl parents of tho latter arc iudignantat tl severity of their sentence, aud tbrcati . td proscirtiie the University authorities It is feared that further reductions _ the Yictoriau Civil Servants' saljiri will be ncccs-saiy. If additional taxatii is required, the Government .is almc certain to resort to the income tax pi posals of last session, with au absent tax.