CABLE BREVITIES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8680, 24 September 1891, Page 5

CABLE BREVITIES.

A Workmen's Congress on accidents has opened its session at Borne. Parliament upholds the extradition policy of the Austrian Minister of War. It is unlikely that Sduth Australia will be represented at the Chicago Exhibition. The report that General Bogran, late President of Honduras, has been murdered, is denied. ' The earnings of the Canadian Pacifi< railway are reported to be increasing with wonderful rapidity. The threatened strike of the London Victoria dockers for an increase of a penny per hour has been averted. The auxiliary squadron has arrived ab Melbourne, and the officers have been accorded a hearty welcome. "General" Beoth on Tuesday night addressed ten thousand people ab Melbourne on " Darkest England." American stocks have been rapidly rising for some time. The inflation during, the past five weeks is calculated at ..thirty millions. It is reported that H.M.S. Benbow, one of the Mediterranean Squadron, has been ordered to Chatham owing to defects in a 111-ton gun. The Queen has consented to lend to the Launceston Exhibition a portrait of herself shown at Jamaica. Mr. Waterhouse, R.A., the artist who painted it, ha?; given his sanction. ■_ ■ ' The Melbourne Age states that New Zealand mabifesbs greater boldness in political experiments than some of its compeers, bub considers that this may be a sign of sterility rather than eccentricity.