CABLE BREVITIES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4740, 7 June 1894, Page 3

CABLE BREVITIES.

Strikers lying in ambush shot four miners in Powelton, Virginia. Germany has declined to assent to the Congo treaty. The strikers at Cripple Creek are abducting mine owners, and holding them for ransom.' A number of men on strike in Farmersburg, Indiana, attempted to wreck by means of dynamite, a train carrying militia. The latter opened fire and killed four men. A microscopic test of the alleged tree-smearing proves that 90 per cant, of marks are the result of cattle rubbing against the trees iiud the remainder were caused by mendicants whodesired to create a scare, M. Dupuy intends to act in the old Fronch spirit, He will not permit priests to intervene in politics, and ho declines-to accept the Pope's orders.

Tlio House of Commons, by. a majority of 101, adopted the principle of graduated taxation as proposed in tlic new Income Tax and succession duties.

Details show that the epidemic raging at Hongkong is a kind of fever, andcamothithcrfrom Canton, where it is known as the. black plague. Mr Johnston, the British Commissiouer, reports that he has defeated Jlankiipera, and inflicted the deatli blow oji' the slave trade in Nyassa-' land'. Ho also states that the Australians. are beginning to prefer Eqntnil Afticato Paraguay, j