CABLE BREVITIES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4801, 16 August 1894, Page 2

CABLE BREVITIES.

The Queen Ims given the Kaiser a tentative promise to visit Prussia next spring. The_ Kaffirs in Zoutspanberg aro again in revolt, and aro attacking Agatha, Troops have been sent tol repel them, • i| The Kaffirs havo blocked the Murchison road, and are burning homesteads and capturing cattle. Keinforcoments havo been sent.

Tho brother of Santosiomurderer of President Carnot, has committed suicide The cause is believed to' have been grief at Santo's position. Steamers containing freemen : were attacked; on : tlio Darlings River by Unibnistspostedonthebanks.Stonos, clubs, and firesticks woro thrown oh board,' but noono was injured, and the vessels reached tlioirdestinations safely, .■<■..' ■'.• ,:-- ;.- ■l'liree workmen Lave been rescued from tho collapsed building hi'the Eastern Ai'cade, ;Melboui'ne, in "/& badly injured condition. Tho man killed was a passer-by named Hannah. ,'lbkp were many narrow pscftpes, and ainqng the list was the' »on,Wa.2ieai l ;P l :esideiitflfthe Legislativo Counollr / : ' ■•' f . Some'3oo'niiners havo 1 struck i( Coolgardio- 'iwyM per week'and' water,' insteadof £3 lOsand water. .There has been intense excitemeni in the vicinity of tho how find at the Wealth of .Nations, and at one timo it was; feared ty a disturbance

would occur. Hundreds of men ox- "\A|j plottedthb line of reef in the hopo of' m| finding the Bpqt~whence the Dunns V "U took tho riohV'slugß, but without nj success. Another 4 owt of gold has " \ boen sent in to Coolgardio Dunn "J discovered his find in tho presonceof 0 the syndicate who employed him, ,» and the sight staggered all who

beheld it. The stone was a mass of