CABLE BREVITIES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4745, 12 June 1894, Page 2

CABLE BREVITIES.

The Duke of Westminster is sol» ling his Pimlico freeholds, i The Provincial Finance Minister of Buenos Ayres declares that the Provinco ia bankrupt, The London press treats tho French outbreak in the Chamber of Deputies with ridicule., - ■;

Indecisive fighting liastakon place at Cripple Creek between etrikera and police. The latter used Gatliiie guns. Collisions also occurred between the strikers and the polico in Olevo* land and Ohio, ■

At Newport in Virginia, owing to '• his denunciation of lynching, the J mob tarred and feathered Dr. Atone, ;, a British subject, The latter has ' brought the outrage undertheiiotico of Sir Julian Pauncefote, the British Ambassador, and has asked him to . ; procure an indemnity from the"' United States Government. . In the Calcutta Divorce Court, Sullivan) an Indian plantor, sought a divorce from his wife on the ground of Eardloy Morton,, a ? barrisfcei'. The charge having been proved a decree nisi was granted, : with £3OOO damagos agllfiistthe co- ' respondent, The petitioner devotes the award to making provision for 1 his wife. Morton premises to many tho woman immediately and forego his intention of entering the Indian. Parliament, '

Tho report of the two delogates who were sent to India by the Victorian Government to investigate trade prospects is somewhat discouraging, Itwouldbe useless, they report, to attempt to introduce frozen meat into India unless proper provision wero made for cool storago. The demand for the best quality of meat is small, tho principal business being done with the medium article. With regard to supplying the Army, tho delegates found that fresh meat can be obtained at a much less cost locally than the frozen article could be supplied at.'