CABLE BREVITIES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4763, 3 July 1894, Page 2

CABLE BREVITIES.

Some 80,000 _ men have Pulhuan car strikers.(=-v-i ' The Princo of Wales opened'tho Tower Bridge on Saturday. The ceremohy ttas avery imposing one. A Nihilist plot lias beonuneaithcdiii Smolensk, and 18 of with it-havo been Men into custody. - . "It is expected that the United: States.; Government will arbitrate in tlio dispute. between China and Japan respecting Corea. . , It' is' reported' at' Shtuaghdi'llmt 20 battalions of Chinese troops: hare ordered to Corea forthwith, as there is seemingly siniilH hope 1 .',0f. settling; the. dispute with Janan. * <■ : i V;One hundred and'fifty have been arrested at Itome of being concerned in a plot against ' life of tlio King.' Astounding results liavo been ' at Washington from artillerypracl^^H ■ with; hardened shells,, ) OklilaJ a liiissiail/'ltis claimwlthat^^^H ■ missile .is yastly : .superior ,to i possessed by any othcrToWor. '.,; ) i urge i fives to investigate tho_ siue of I meat purporting to be jB Ajsh. Mr.Gnrdi^^B • nersaid the costpulJ bo i lio Chancellor of tl^'Exch^uef^ld^T^ comply with the demand. . , J s ; Mr Buxton, Under-Secretary for ,'tho g Colonics, replying to-Colonel Howard s Yiuccnt, said it was highly 'inexpedient ! - il to explain the precise , strength ottho 8 naval and' military defences which tlio I d colonics would proyidc' in A 6 war. ' It was certain that they woul^-^ * readily, assist, for the undoubted spirit J ' of the colonists had b'ceit-. evidenced by ' A ,f the despatch of the Souddn-Contingent -.1 b from Bow South Wales. 1 '■ I i. ' JTcwb has reaelied'Soutlicm Cross of a ; ■ >r marvellous'find of.gold made by a party I i- of », They obtained 480oz gold from less than ■ x two tonsof .stoiio-rpue'-piceo.of quartz I 8 weighing 3001b being sold for £2OOO. If^B tlie gold coutiuucs down.asatprescnt>forfß s 100ftit yill.be,worth £1,000,000.. 'lt said, to.be. tlio .richest patclj r pf gold earthed iu auy'part of tlw world.