CABLE BREVITIES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4807, 24 August 1894, Page 2

CABLE BREVITIES.

of New (now) are quoted at 1/3145. An Anarchist shqt a police inspector at Seraing, in Belgium and then committed suicide, The American anti-Anarchist Bill has beoft alielyed, although the report of the Judiciary Committee was favourable to it, A bomb exploded in a dwelling at Sacramento, California, killing six peoplo, It is supposed to bo an act of revenge upon the owner for giving evidence leading to tho conviction of Anarchists.

Orders given for great military manoeuvres to take place at Smolensk, have been countermanded owing totheillneßsoftheCzar,whois suffering from an attack of influenza,

Tho Daily Chronicle publishes a despatch froniServia stating that King Alexander is about to abdicate in favour of his father ex-King Milan.

The Germans in Samoa are petitioning the Emperor to annex the islands ordeolatoa protectorate, over them. They are averse tq a dual German and English' control,' ■SJir Juljan Pauncefqte, British Ambassador to the United States, and Mr Gresham, Secretary pf State, havo arranged that 600,000 dollars compensation shall be paidfp the Canadian sealers under the award pf the Bplmng Sea Commission, News has been received at Brisbane that Mr Frank Ernest Lawes, a prominent official in British New Guinea, is dead, Hisyoung wife was so affected at his death that I she 'wandered into the bush and died from exposure,'

A number of shearers at Brooking (N.S.W.) were summoned for a breach of agreement, in refusing to work, but the charges were with-! drawn on tho men signing »' fresh, agreement and resuming work, • "Araysterious tragedy ig repqrM froniMaryteuglilrllSl mile's.N.W, l)f Melbouvne.' A widow 'Mo Weeps a'.boardingliouse 'left "herhbmeto post, a lep»V .and ,on - ,libr return found'thre'o 6f t'her aged 7, §,; and 3 yeajs Respectively/ with' their heads battered in by a' fpmaljawk. Two of the children arp dead, and the third lies in a critical qondi-'

tiohi- There is/no clue.to the'plrpej||| No^scomes from rides thatthe white traders at TannaS are muWatarmed at the contkuanoojll of native disturbances. -The have'shown no unfriendliness tip to® the present, bat it is feared that *J$ whichever side ,is victorious' wuT cj| raid the traders'stores. >.; ; s|| The no-confidence debate in the ™% Victorian been tS| adjourned until Tuesdaf; The B«y"?| A. WJ Edgar presented himself at the Bar of the House, and explained '"'iQ that his- statements that members were : a^ disgrace ?& community generally'; 'further, "that"' he ..had|«p specially in his mind the- Jabe£s|j Balfour fraud and the Canadian tm§sM Panama scandals. Thematterthen||| dropped. i| h ■''/:'" ■■ ■ '" \ : '-:^j§