CABLE BREVITIES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4764, 4 July 1894, Page 2

CABLE BREVITIES.

The Dutch authorities in Java have ismisscd two officials epnnected wijli ie seizure of the Costa liica Packet. The Japanese Government; has sumloned Corn to relinquish the suzerinty of China, and accopt a Japanese rotcctoratc. The Govorunicnt lias espatcliod 3030 additional troops to icoul tho capital. The Chinese Government has sent an ivoy to Seoul with a view of settling ic difficulty. Aii experimental shipment of red gum nd ironbark sleepers sent from New t outh Wales lo the Great Eastern aud t ho London, Brighton, and South Coast J tailwnyCompanies,shofls(lintivhilothe ] nice is nearly doublo what is paid for .' (eepcrs in England, '.he colonial timber lasts three times as long. The Victorian Government has decided to make further reductions in the salaries of Ministers and members of Parliament, and to abolish tlie anunnl increments to public officers. Prohibitive duties arc to be reduced (o tlie revenuc-prodiicingj point. The strike in the United States aft eels 32 railroads. There has been much violence, and a number of trains have been derailed. The interruption of traffic has caused the price of provisions .in Chicago to double. The pig-yards aroidle, ' .

Federal troops have been ordered to isceurc the fro running of trains in IColorado. Mjlitia have occupied Danville and Decatur in Tennessee. The leaders in the railroad dispute declare (hat it has developed into a tight between unionism and capitalists.