CABLE BREVITIES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4753, 21 June 1894, Page 2

CABLE BREVITIES.

, A Russian 'warship 'hasbeon ordered to Morocco,

There is a great outcry in Russia at tho low prices ruling for.wheat, which hvill. prevent the profitable sale' of the heavy crop. President Kruger has agreed'that Germans, French, andßolgiaiis shall not be liable to military sorvice in ■-■ the Transvaal. fy Signor Crispi has wardß of 18,000 telegrams cojJitu. lating him on his siuation. ■ '^^WB"rT* r The Transvaal Courts have rolled'' that British subjects in tho Hcpub- , lie are eligible for military service '": after two years' residence. The French Government. ..has • decided to extend the boundaries pf Algeria into the Tuat region liri Contral Africa, and a large troops is to bo movod for this pur.; ■ pose. , : :: ; "-: '■''■' ":, '■ J.i 'i A leaky ferry-boat conveying a .' party of 70 picnickers, mostly youths ■ and girls, sank on tho Samara,,.a tributary of the Volga/in' Russsia, - and 45 were. drowned.'■ ; .Terrible' : ; scenes occurred when the struggling"' mass was precipitated into tho water. 1 " Tho Hobarfc police have arrested a man named Izaacßarker on a charge conspiring with others to defraud by ; " salting" the Mount Huxley/i mine.; Other arrests on a similar.'', ehargo are expected to.follow. . V ''