CABLE BREVITIES.
Tho Hawaiian Provisional Govern nient has annexed Nccker Island.
Turkey will protest against the Anglo-Belgian-Convention. A cloud burst upon Frascr River, near Vancouver, and the Hood resulting demolished tho railway track, and wrecked a train. Forty persons Tyere drowned,
Sir William Harconrt says that if theßritishGovcrnmentdistinguisbed between the colonies and foreign 1 countries, tho death duties would iiecomo a preferential tax.'
■S Somo 1200 ti'oops have Ijeen sont ib Ohio to raise the blockade of tho opal trains, which is causing a coal famine, The strikers in tjio other districts are showing considerable violence, soiziug mines and burning railway bridges," ;: Tbo' American ship Habitant, 1619 tons,' has been almost totally destroyed by tire at Melbourne, The vessel had discharged her inward cargo, aud was about to sail for 'Nowcastle,: Captain Potter, with his wife and child, had a narrow escape, getting out of tho cabin just as the flames burst up through the mizzen hatch. The vessel had to bo filled-with water before the flames were extinguished. Incendiarism is suspected, as-.thereare indications of , the cabin' having been robbed, .
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4744, 11 June 1894, Page 2
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180CABLE BREVITIES. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4744, 11 June 1894, Page 2
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