CABLE BREVITIES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4777, 19 July 1894, Page 3

CABLE BREVITIES.

ThePullmanPnlaccCarCompany's operatives have resumed work at the old rate of wages, A cyclone in Upper Bavaria destroyed the harvest, and caused immenso damago to buildings, The yacht Vigilant beat the Britannia at Belfast regatta, owing to an accident to the latter. The contents of a military waggon exploded in the streets of Cliicago, killing a number of soldiers and civilians, The Italian Government is building eleven new warships,' tivo of the first-class, and is largely increasing the number of torpedo boats. . 'The Scotch.miners accuse their leaders of having ordered the strike upon unfounded pledges of English support, and are resuming work, . The total number of people killed by : the recent earthquakes at Conb tantinoplo wan 200, Forty corpses

wci'o found, in tho. Grand Baraar.. ; ? repeated siiglitis i atithi) .hands of the Nationalists, Mr, John Morley is likely to resign the Cbair: mansliip'of'the Irish Land Acts Committee. :

Mr Chamberlain suggests tlmt a Privato Bill should bo introduced to test tho feeling in the. Houso with regard to tlio Gothenburg system' of regulating tlio drink traffic. ;" ■ Owing to negroes replacing some strikers they were attacked by Ala-; banm miners, The. police. were called in : tothe rescue, and sliot six; of the assailants, j

The son of the Duke and of York, was christened last Tuesday, Albert Edward, Tho Arch-: bishop of Canterbury performed tlio ceremony; Her Majesty tho Queen was among those present. There is a movement in Scotland' in favour of the deposit conversion scheme. Depositors have already offered the Trust half a million sterling. It is expected that the first million will bo issued next week. When the nows of President Carnot's death reached Noumea, a number of fanatical Frenchmen proceeded to the Italian Consulate and insisted on' the flag being pulled down; The Governor sent ft fow gendarmes who protected tho Consulate.

Mr Foley, tho Sydney merchant who has been inspecting tho Irish butter factories, asserts that tho arrangements for storage arc so good as to lead him to beliovo that Irish butter will be a formidable competitor with other brands next season. At a mass-meeting in Johannesburg, resolutions were carried demanding tho extension of tho Franchise to aliens, and warning President Kriiger of the South African Republic, that trouble would onI sue if such a demand worn refused,