CABLE BREVITIES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4808, 25 August 1894, Page 2

CABLE BREVITIES.

President Cleveland, who was suffering from Bright'B diseaso, is bettor. Chinese maltreated and killed the Rev. Mr Wylie, a Presbyterian missionary at Shanghai. Hcrr Dowo was wouuded while exhibiting his bullet-proof cuirass at Aix-la-Chapelle, New Zealand andTasmanian stud sheep are only realising low prices at the Melbourne sales, The Victorian Agricultural Department has shipped 20 tons of frozen hares and rabbits to Londou. A rich gold find is reported from Yalgoo, in tlioj Murchison district. The stone yields lOOoz to tlic^M The Russians have Austrians, wlio were military frontier, and sont Siberia. The Czar has prevented of Servia from abdicating, ing to ex-King Milan as his^^H Tho Governor of Illinois pealed to the people to support 10W families left starving by the strike of the Pullman employes. Mnthias Larkin has been sentenced to five years imprisonmenton a further ohargo of embezzlement from tho South Molboumo Building Society, to run concurrently with tho sentence he is now working out. Owiug to a technical omission in the United States Tariff Bill, twenty threo million pounds of wool at present iu bond will have to pay duty unless it'is sent out of tho country and re-imported by railway. A wool oxekauge has been started" in New York in expectation of increased trade.

It is estimated that owing to 1500 tons of colonial buttor being stored in London, besides large quantities of Irish, supplies will be veryabundant this_ season. The Europeau and British hay crops also show a large increase. It is expected that colonial butter will average 15s to 20s below last season.

The first reports of the Maryborough (Vic) tragedy were somowhat exaggerated, as none of the children are dead. One is in a very critical condition, but there is some hope of the other two recovering.