CABLE BREVITIES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4749, 16 June 1894, Page 3

CABLE BREVITIES.

~f: y: -:';-. The British Government lies sent ;;' a wai--shirj to Morocco. '! ;.;.■"-: Russia has finally l-ojectcd OhiEa's :■■;■: claim to. the Alicbur Pamir. ; ■ ■ ■■ 3 • persons ; died of tho 1 : plnguo at _ Hongkong on Tuesday. The/British' soldiers are now boiii'' affected;. . • Tho Corenn rotais lmvo captured the capi^J,; ; JW„,i. The King of CoreahasfldipoJapiui, Tho iusurgent Matabelo chief Mabach In* fled to the Limpopo l'lvoi'.nnd tlio Boers avo advancing. Sir William Harcourt has asked for.a personal conference with the Agents-Gcneuil on tho question of the death duties. ■; Mr James Wovlcy lins issued a circular suggesting (lint the share-hohk-8 in the Loan and Mercantile Agency Company should appoint two directors and air auditor. Tho French declaro that Abdul Aziz.owed his proclamation as Sul- . taii of Morocco to British influence. Tho second trial of tho mandarin Phrayot for tho shooting of the French Militia-Inspector Gros3lli.ll —tho incident which was made the upon Siam in his being scirmiccd towyears' iiuprisonment. *"*"■ j The, Mo of Devonshire, in n remnrknblo s-jecch rcgatding the taxation proporals of the Government implied that Democintie Undfeots would compel landowners to make great changes in their expenditure, and close great country hour 5 like his own scat at Chats- ' WOH>£ Tho equity suit M'Namara v The Crown, claiming £13,C00 damages to property through N.S.W. Government works, ono of tho longest suits Binco the Equity Act was passed in 1880, lasted 27 days, and lcsultcd i« a verdict for plaintiff for £IO.OOO and costs, M'Novin, one of the proprietors of . Justice, who wrs sentenced to one month's imprisonment for libel on Mr Slattcry, Minister of Mines, has been reloaded fUhe instance of the Minister himself, as an act of mercy.