CABLE BREVITIES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4806, 22 August 1894, Page 2

CABLE BREVITIES.

President Cleveland is ill, Buffering from Bright's disease. ; Miss Marsden lias issued: writs againstthe Loper Fund Committee and Mr Francis, secretary to that body. ■ Tlio Premier of Tasmania, has received an intimation that the New j Zealand Government doesnot iutend [to interfere in the exchange of i fruit.

Owing to an increase in the number of burglaries committed by men carrying arms, tlio night polico at Melbourne have been armed with revolvers.

Threo largo'-cruisers for Russia are being built in English shipyards. Hasbergeiytlio Dundee merchant, has been committed for- trial on charges of bank forgeries involving £IOO,OOO. .-

Swift retribution has overtaken a black who murdered a white man near Coolgardie. The black's body has been found hanging to a tree by the leg, and riddled with shot. "

Tho Bank of New Zealand carries forward £38,080. The report issued by tho directors states that certain' accounts will probably require provision to be made for them later, but the matter will be left to the now Board.

A corps of Italian detectives has been sent to London to assist in watching tho Auarohists who are hatching plots in Whitechapel and othor districts ot the Metropolis as outrages are feared,

At a lecture delivered in London by O'Donovan Rossa, James Stephens, who was tho Irish " head-cen-I tre" in 1865, presided. In the course of his remarks, tho lecturer said lie

(lid not despair of bringing England to her knees. He denounced both the Irish sections in Parliament, and called Mr Davitt a scoundrel. A number of N.S.W. graziers have determined to make a thorough trial of the shippingof live cattle to the English market, If the Queensland breeders from ivhom they buy store cattle will deliver 1000 steers to their paddocks near Newcastle tliey will secure ono of the finest boats in the Trans-Atlantic cattlj trade, and make shipments at thca own risk and expense. fl