CABLE BREVITIES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4804, 20 August 1894, Page 3

CABLE BREVITIES.

The Caledonian and Great Western Railway Companies propose to import trial shipments of sleepers from New South Wales.

Forty persons suspected of belonging to an Anarchist society havje been arrested at Berlin,

The U.S. Senate has passed the Bill, excluding andproviding for the deportation of alien Anarchists, The Kami's repulsed a detachment of Boers who were attempting to relievo the Agatha garrison. The natives are scouring the country and burning homesteadsalongthe Litaha River ■

Campbell, a Sydney engineer, who fatally stabbed his wuo in a quarrel and was sontenced to death, has had his sentenco commuted to penal servitude for 20 years. Tho Judgo refused Sir Matthew Davies his discharge in bankruptcy, at Molboume, until ho paid 7s in the £, remarking that justice to the creditors of the Company demanded that" the man who played to win should be able to pay if ho lost,"

Twenty-eight sheds in tho Coonamble (N.S.W.) district have started shearing under tho old agreement. /Three of the sheds have accepted the new agreement, and seven have refused to accept it, the latter being filled with non-Unionists.

Mr Danvers, of the Queensland Insurance Company, is advising tho directors to give up underwriting frozen meat unless tke insurance ends with tho ship's arrival. He finds that owing to the action of air from tho careless treatment of meat in barges it becomes discoloured and the prico is reduced, Mr Valentine, New Zealand agontj believes that a frozen inutton : trado can bo doveloped with Italy and. France, He advises exporters to arrange for-'veterinary'certificates, I in order to avoid restrictions, .being being placed upon the meat in those countries,