CABLE BREVITES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4734, 31 May 1894, Page 2

CABLE BREVITES.

Ex-King Milan lias decided to leave Servia in Angubi. Floods, resulting horn, the overflow of the Yang-tse-Kiang have caused the death of 600 people by drowning. A landslip in Kuluin the Ponjaub dammed a river, and the latter bm'stirg its banks, the suvrounuing .villages were'flooded, with the result that 200 persons were drowned. A fearful accident happened yesterday iu a Sydney steam laundry. Tho hair of one of the women employed there caught in the rapidlyrevolting belt, and belme itcould-be disentangled the poor woman was completely scalped, The Sydney bakers have begun a systematic canvas of the customers of themastors employingnon-Umqiiists, iirging them to deal only with those employing Unionists. The defence of the Countess Russel's suit for the mtoration of conjugal rights is that sho is not entitled to what she seeks, havV jjeen guilty of' cruelty, owing to charge? she preferred against the! Earl of being guilty of ajsgi'fice'ft'.l offences, The case has been postponed for the present, the Judge advising that counsel for thedefeuce should abandon a technical plea, as he would prefer to decide the case on its' merits.

The officers of the British. India' Company's s.s. Chingtu report that a disease vaguely called "The Plagnel" : was- w,ging at Honjko'ij when the vessel left,'and a hunched coloured people Tveie dyiag djly. One of the crow of the Chiugtu died after leuviaj but the doctor was unable to diagnose the disease. The vessel proceeded from Sycbcy to Melbpui'ngin(|uai.vJiife.