CABLE BREVITIES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4780, 23 July 1894, Page 3

CABLE BREVITIES.

Over 100 loaders of the recent American strike will be indicted for conspiracy,

During operations for blowing ltp a sunken yacht in the Solent, a charge exploded, blowing three men to fragments, The King of Belgium has appointed two delegates to negotiate with the French Government upon the Congo question.

Lega, an Anarchist, convicted on -charge of attempting the lifo of Signor Crispi, has been sentenced to 20 years'.imprisonment.

Lees, tho Bavraba murderer, in his speecli from thescaifold, declared that Cummings was innocent, and denied that he himself was guilty of murder, Cummings was practically dead beforo the bolt was drawn,

The Governor of Texas, in condemning tho President's invasion of State rights, declared that tho country was on the verge of a great revolution, tho result of which would be its dismemberment.

At Oboron, on tho hills west of Sydnoy, the country is completely covered with snow, and stock is likely to perish for want of food unless a chango occurs shortly, At Kaindra tho snow reached tho housetops, and the townspeople are indulging in exercise on snow-shoes from tho roof of the Kiandra Hotel.

Although the weather is bitterly cold in Sydney, no rain has fallen for ninny weeks.

If Sir Henry Parkes is called on to form a New South Wales Ministry, ho will make Federation the first main question. An analysis of the voting shows that in 1891, the Labour vote numbered 103,000 against 49,000 this week, Tho N.S.W. Agricultural Department has received a communication from the Government of Capo Colony with reference to tho prospects of trade in butter with that Colony, to the effect that tho recent shipment of Australian butter to the been highly appreciated andffiat a demand for the article has set in,