CABLE BREVITIES.

Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 143, 16 June 1894, Page 5

CABLE BREVITIES.

Macbae, the New South Wales athlete, now on a visit to America, ran half-a-mile in New York in lmiit 59sec. He is being matched with Turner, Allen, and other leading pedestrians. The " Financial News " believes that the Victorian Credit Foncier scheme is capable of good results. The Corean rising is reported to have collapsed. The Paris correspondent of the " Daily Chronicle " says that the Bonapartista are considering an appeal to the people. The " Riforma" states that Signor Crispi has decided to abandon a number of the proposed taxes, and has agreed to economise more in harmony with the wishes of the Chamber. Two men named Creed and Lemon have been sentenced at Sydney to two years imprisonment for forging 4,800 tram tickets. Mr Patterson, Premier of Victoria, says Sir Gee. Dibbs' unification proposal is a moab important one, and deserves very careful consideration by the Cabinet ab the earliest opportunity. The Victoria Minister for Railways thinks New South Wales has always been the agroesor in differential railway rate's, while Victoria has simply betin sating on the defensive. The Victorian Rifle Association has approved ot a proposal to send a team of eleven to the Bisloy meeting next year. A nuggeo weighing 570z was found in an unvvorked parb of a claim near Foster, while a load of stuff from the same place gave 9Joz. A convention has been entered into between Queensland and Canada, for the direct exchange of money orders, to come into force on Juiy Ist. The young man Bryant who shot his mother dead atHobart has been committed to a lunatic asylum. The Khedive has abandoned his intention to visit England. The opening of the Canadian Conference is postponed till the 26th inst. The Hon. N. Fitzgerald, one of the Victorian delegates to Canada, is lying ill ab Vancouver. The motion for second reading of the Deceased Wife's Sister Bill was negatived in the House of Lords by 129 to 120. The Senate, by 137 to 29, rejected a motion to restore the McKinley rate on wool. Other proposals with regard to the wool duty are before the Senate, and the debate continues.