CABLE BREVITIES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4774, 16 July 1894, Page 3

CABLE BREVITIES.

Reports of an Anarchist plot to blow up the Chamber of Deputies have alarmed Paris, and tho special guards nro increased.

Baron Schroeder is negotiating with Mr. Stewart, tho Official Kcccivcr, with a view to settle the action against tho old directors of the Loan and Mercantile Agency Company.'

The Berlin press gives currency to a statement that Russia is sending a strong force to Coren to meet tio evoutuality of war botween China and Japan. Tho Chicago strikers conspired to destroy the terminus of the Illionis Central Railway by means of dynamite. Railway traffic has been generally resumed, At a conference at Newcastle, attended by representatives of •100,000 English miners, it was decided to make a levy of a shilling por week to assist tho Scotch miners out on strike.

- Tho Premier of England promises that a Welch Disestablishment Bill shall bo the first measure takon next session.

Cholera has broken out at St. Petersburg, and is spreading to an alarming oxtcnt. Tho disease has also brokon out in tho military barracks, and is raging with great virnlenco among the soldiers. Cholera is spreading into Germany/and, despitothe efforts of tho 'sanitary authorities, gravo fours arc entertained that it will get boyond their control.

Mr S, Buxton, Under-Secretary for the Oolonios, replying to Mr Howard Vincent, Bnid that Australia ami New Zealaud in 20 years had spont at least £3,000,000 on: armaments and fortifications. Tlio annual outlay in Australia, tho Cape, Canada, and Natal upon defences was £1,000,000.