CABLE BREVITIES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4736, 2 June 1894, Page 3

CABLE BREVITIES.

Riots arising out of the strikes are frequent in Ohio, Illinois and Pennsylvania.

Mr John Grant, of Glenmoriston, has obtained a divorce from his wife on the ground of adultery with Viscount Baring, The Ameer of Afghanistan has signified his desiro to obtain the approbation of' his subjects before visiting England. A train caught fire in consequence of a collision on the Wisconsin Central Line, U.S.A., and 20 persons were burned to death.

Three hundred pictures have been promised on loan to the Hobart Exhibition, Some 250 British and 150 French, Belgian, and German exhibitors are negotiating for space. Tremendous floods are reported in Fraser river, British Columbia, and Spoknno river, Washington, Enormous dantjge has been caused, hundreds of houses being demolished, ■ A number of Scotch bankers and merchants are petitioning the Premier nnd Sir Wm. Harcourt in favour of Penny Postage. They urge that the Maquis of Dufferin, Lord Carrington, or Lord Randolph Churchill should be sent as a British Envoy to negotiate with the colonies, The Sheriff in Cripple Creek district, iii Colorado, has imported a Gatling gun to assist in maintaining order if necessary. The miners, aided by ex-military Germans, have formed a cavalry troop of 100 horses, and havo fortified a camp with a garrison of 1600 men,