CABLE BREVITIES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4814, 1 September 1894, Page 2

CABLE BREVITIES.

," The Scotch coal miners' strike shows signs of collapsing. The Japanese Government has pur(j chased 200,000 nccdlcguns at Vienna. ls The Porte protests against the Italian i occupation of Kallasa, • j The Doers have succeeded is supprcssing the Kaffir revolt, r _ A large amount of wool in bond lias n J been withdrawn and oxportcd with a view of re-importation. Ming advantago of tho Corcan difficulty, liussia is pressing China to ' abandon her claim to the Alichur Pamir. An Anarchist has been arrested in Milan on a chargo of being concerned , in a plot to assassinato the Kiug of [' Greece. ' II Sccolo states that the Kaiser is on- ''. deavouring to arrango a marriage between the Priuco of Naples, heir to the Italian crown, and thedaughter of King g George of Grccco, i- Salvador Frauch, convicted of the outrage in the Barcelona Theatre, ad- [. mittccl that he was a member of tho n Tertiary Franciscan Order, audrcceived c the Eucharist, before his execution. He _ asked the pardon of tho people of Bar- . celona for lu's crime. ; r Li Huug Chang has condemned several ; officers and soldiers to be beheaded for _ the murder of the Eev. Mr Wylie, Tho . mission-house is to be rebuilt, and a . special tax levied on the locality for tho ,_ benefit of Mr TVylio's family, d A sculptor named Brown has invented c a water-tricycle, on which ho crossed 1 from Newport to Western-Supcr-Maro in three hours. Tho inventor is confi- , dent that he can further improve tho machine.