CABLE BREVITIES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4754, 22 June 1894, Page 2

CABLE BREVITIES.

I The plaguo at Hongkong now shows signs of abating, ; Tho young Sultan of Morocco has imprisoned Muloy Mohammed, his , elder brother, owing to his intrigues. The Daily Ntws says that Sir W, V, Harcourt will probably agree to a compromise on the estate duty question on a reciprocal basis. At a meeting in London of two ; thousand Liberal delegates, a resolution _ was earned demanding the abolition of the power of veto possessed by_ the Houso of Lords. Thore is a general impression that the British Government intends to proceed only with tho financial proposals and Evicted Tenants Bill this session, . . , : Tho committee appointed! to ; look into the question of the Nicaragua Canal has recommended the issue of stock to tho amount of £16,500,000, for carrying out tho work, and that tho work be supervised by thrco United States army engineers, .Three experts sent by a syndicate to examine tho Mount Huxley niino, in Tasmania, report that there is not sufficient gold to make working payable. The syndicato will therefore dissolve and return the money deposited,'.' . \ .■' ;; ' . Tho Transvaal troops- stormod Malabach's stronghold, each terraco being successively forced, while the [assailants were covered by artillery. Maldbaoh 'deserted^is.positipiHind; retired,-: '.'',■:•■' '"■'

, The captain of the shipChittagong, now at Adelaide, has resigned the command,-' and the'men underfoke'to carry_ out .'the tenia of their articles, Tlie'infprmatiqiis/oharging the'craw mil mutiny withdwpo [QUilpt tlie v apprentTces agaiui3fe : bhe:captom;.ivhicK I th6^vliol6 p/tilio/crewcpnifomed. ■'//'>, ':;/*.'■:;v ||/Tho|rßtcraYentip^

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1 One'liundred'delSgalgj sent, and pll Zealand will •)'e*Mp , MsenteL J hoped that the Coherence ganiso a a nomenclature of frditj/ ; Tlie ,floman/inderson, tempted to commit suicide, zlttoWem shooting Prasor, fatally injured, and is lecovei rapidly. Eraser, who resident of Slicppnrton," was onlyii||pi§§ mained a couplo of months agoT foimeriy Sidney, but thejrqaarrellSd ( and uo>xf||l lecently sought "-police! "protection, stating that the woman threatened p|pl| to shoot him. The woman* camMo v Jsl||| mamage »- r^llil