CABLE BREVITIES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4732, 29 May 1894, Page 3

CABLE BREVITIES.

Lord Chief Justice Coleridge, whose health hns for some time past caused grave anxiety to his friends, is mewling, and every hone of his ultimate recovery is entertained.

J!<ws has been received that the Cape Parliament has sanctioned the annexation of Poudoland,

The House of Commons, by n majority of 127, has agreed to a measure providing that election expense's shall be paid from the rates. Il'lic Irish members have notified the Secretary for Ireland _ thai they .will oppose the Irish Education- Bill at all stages, owing to the omission of a clause recognising the Christian Brothers' schools.

Lord liosebcry asked Mr John Burns to join the Ministry, but the latter refused staling that lie could best serve the workers by remaining outside of the Government. The coal workers in Port Said made an attack upon the oflieers, but the police succeeded in dispersing the rioters, though they had to use bayonets.

France appears lo be very jealous at a number of British bluejackets having been landed, and has ordered some vessels of her Mediterranean fleet to Port Said,

The British forces in the Nyassa district routed Muknnjira, a noted slavedealer, and killed 100 of his followers.

A reign of terror has been caused in several coal districts near Washington, where the men are on strike.

I At Crippic Creek, in Colorado, the strikers dropped 1001b of powder with a lighted fuse down a shaft, and the explosion killed eleven non-Union men working in the mine. Great irritation is felt throughout Cape Colony at the fact that only Major Goold-Adams, an Imperial Officer, has been decorated for service in the Matabole campaign, while'the officers of the Chartered Company have been completely ignored. The circumstance is ascribed to i difference of opinion between Sir Hfury.Lochand Mr Rhodes, ithePreinkry! '