CABLE BREVITIES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4786, 30 July 1894, Page 3

CABLE BREVITIES.

Lord Brassoy in resigning his office of Xojd'in-WAltingi on personal •, Disastrous forest fires arc raging at Victoria, 8.0,, and two towns in the track of the flames have hecn destroyed. . Some £3,000,000 worth of the Bank of Now Zealand stock was subscribed by the public in small sums, M. Jules Benard intends to form a company to establish centres in Belgium for the sale of Australian meat, dairy produce, wine, and fruits, . 'Another attempt was made to *»*" wreck \\\e Launceston mail train, by piling stones on the rails. The cowcatcher, liowevor, swept them aside, • Thp report of a Kanaka rising in Ife'w Caledqnia turns put to be'unfpunded, It arose through 3000 nafives assembling at a feast to cele : Ipfe the yam harvest, The settlers ■ hecamo alarmed at. tlio size pf the . gathering, and tolcgraphed for a warship. Sir Julius Vogel, in an article in the United Service- Magazine, urges *? ' • that it is imprudent of Great Britain tq nag at and intimidate, tho colonies jn cpnfributing to tiie Imperial iiayn) t(pfejicp, ■'•■■■ . : ': The Anti>Anarchlst Bill has passed the Chamber of Ijeputies by b, majority qt"lO£ 'Meunier, liijs ■jjeehTjonfnuced to fiiipi'isqiinieiit for life fqr fiie.'pnji'ngc at ihcC'afo -yViy. t :' 'A'tejcgiini'frpm Shanghai states thjlwar haVacjually.jipen declared ljetweon Oliinn, and Japun, Several «r Chinese'warships hayo met with, mishaps, islmengre,' bowovet 1 , owing 1 to communication: wifjiCoi'eft bemg interrupted, ■' #%J^Bl,'

It is reported that the Japaneso troops havo captured tho King: of Corea. The Chincso Govcrmnont is making large purchases of war material in Amorica, It is rumoured that in ii naval battle with Japan, tho Chinese Buffered disaster. A Conforoncc of toxtile workers at Manchester, representing 200,000 operatives, has approved of a legal j oight hours' limit,

Professor Bryce, President of the Board of Trnde,in reply to aquestion in tho House of Commonß, said tha tho Government declined to int t venoin tho Scotch strike.

The Melbourne Trades Council has decided not to support any candidnto for municipal honours who docs not favor a clauso being inserted, in municipal contracts fixing the minimum wages to bo paid by a contractor as follows:—Unskilled labour, Gd to 8d per hour; skilled labour, nt Union rates. ,'