CABLE BREVITIES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4813, 31 August 1894, Page 3

CABLE BREVITIES.

' Sir John Cowell, who was Master of tho Qneon's Household is dead. A bomb which™ thrown among a numbqr of bathcrs,at Leghorn, in r Tuscany, oxploded, and a number of persons were injured. Hasbergcr, a Dundco lnorclmnt, has ban convicted of extensive forgeries on Scotch and German bunks and sentenced to eight years' penal servitude. Natives murdered five Manilla *6n, at Cairncross Island, neni' Oooktown. Two others escaped. Tho natives seized a lugger belongto tho victims. It is reported that the Bombay police have arrested Nana Sahib, ivho turned traitor during tho Mutiny, and is notorious for his' infamous massacro of the British at '•'■ 'Gawnporo. Tho Scotch miners on strike have lost L 630,000 worth of wages in nine weeks. The whole of the coul usedin tho country isbeing imported from Enfßnd and Wales. In the fight between the Java natives under the chief Lambok and the Dutch troops 30 otlicci-s and 18") metWof the latter were killed. A frosh expedition is being equipped to operate against the natives, AH Cherif, President of the Legislative Council in Cairo, and Hassan, a retired Goncrn 1, h.avo been arrested, and aro bciiicr tried by court-martial, on a chargo of buying Soudanese girl slaves, The net revenue of IheManchcslcr Ship Canal for the half-year is L 36,000. The Chairman of the Canal Company said tit a meeting that the traffic was enormously increasing. They were securing the fereign trade, including traffic with Australia.