CABLE BREVITIES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4767, 7 July 1894, Page 3

CABLE BREVITIES.

Somo 300,000 men are now involved in the railway strike. Three regiments have been ordered to Sacramento, California, to assist in preserving order. The yacht Satanita ran into and tf r ~~~~ 'sank the Valkyrie while racing on the Clyde. Tho Premier has decided to send two warships to Brazil, for the pur- -> pose of obtaining redress for griev- " anccs reported by Italian subjects ■ resident in ltio do Janeiro. ,^ : , China has accepted Russian mo- - . diation re Corca, but Japan resists the offer on tho ground that it is merely a Russian intriguo to secure a Corcan port, The American Income Tax applies to absentees, Tho President states that until the disputed points of the tariff nro settlcMKe Treasury will i 1 ijbh ''" I "L'^jT^"T* ; money. NewTllls been received at Capetown from General Joubert that a number of Malaboohi men, along "with women and children, arc hidng in caves, Ho proposes to oust the men by destroying the caves by means Of dynamite, but will not take action until tho women and children have had a chance of retiring. "^' A prisoner named Osborno, who is at present undergoing a sentence of eight years in Pentridgo Gaol, Melbourne, has confessed to firing the shot which killed Mr McKay, the manager of tho branch of the Commercial Bank in Barraba. The authorities have investigated the matter, and declare that there is no ■foundation for the self-accusation,