CABLE BREVITIES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4789, 2 August 1894, Page 2

CABLE BREVITIES.

The directors of the' City of .Melbourne Bnuk have resigned, owihe; to the dismissal of House, the Manager. The Spanish troops at Mindanao, in the Phillipine Islands, routed the Malays with a loss of 250 killed. '

The new Board ofthoLoanand Mercantile Agency Company lias decided to oppose Mr Stewart's action to compel them to provide funds wherewith to prosecute the old directors, "

la reply to a question in the House of Commons, the Secretary to tho Admiralty said he was not aware that the crows of EM. ships Lizard, Curugoa, and Rapid were aggrieved at their detention on the Australian Station. ' ' ' ■'. >

I The shearing difficulty is spreading in the North-western District of New South Wales, Men have already struck .in one shed, and those in another are expected to go outwheii all is ready to.begin shearing, A number of freo labourers were takeii i from a shed and are held prisoners I bytho Unionists in'Wilcannia district. , I;

A "sceno" occurred in the'Tasmanian Assembly last night, through Mi' Macdonaldmaki'ng some remarks which; Mr Gihnore erroneously interpreted to mean that, he had como to the colony as a convict, ■ He strtitik Mr MoDonald in tho face, and'was suspended for the remainder of the sitting. : '■',.' ■ :,'; Tho 'Labour Party ; in the South Australian; Assembly disapproved tlte action of the Government j\ witkhQldiqg._..:ip^g-seVrice\.'i^re^se^ of pay from the police, recommitted tho Salaries'Bill with'the aid of the. 1 Opposition, ahd'defeated tlie Govern'ment by 25 to 23 upon the insertion 1 of the clause: guaranteeing.the ;in !(irsaßei l ;?''"'.'^;^^.^vv■■'^'•'^^^•":";'^