CABLE BREVITIES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 8886, 24 May 1892, Page 5

CABLE BREVITIES.

The French Government) has decided tc> construct six more ironclad?.

Is is expected that the Chines© in America will be ordered to return home.

By a fire at Oswego, Lake Ontario, lumber to the value of a million dollars was destroyed. It is rumoured that the German authorities intend to re-establish the passport system in Alsace. It is reported that one hundred deaths occur daily from cholera at Harrare, on the East African coast.

The coast of Pacaud and Langelier for frauds upon the Dominion Government has concluded. Judgment was reserved.

The Durham miners are largely in favour of accepting a 10 per cent, reduction, but the masters have rejected their offer.

Lord Sheffield gives it as his opinion that it would be unwise to play a lengthy cricket tour in the colonies for some time.-

Perry, the notorious American train robber, has been sentenced to forty-nine years' imprisonment, cumulative, on four counts.

The Cobdenites insist that tjxe adoption of free trade by the colonies must be the only safe basis for a fiscal union oi; the Empire.

Mr. John Morley considers it woulcl be a bad example and lead to mischievous results if the State interfered with adult) male labour.

The New Belgian Senate constituted on a more democratic basis ,is unanimous that the Lower Chamber should retain the initiative in financial matters.

Sir J. Gorat hopes the labour party will not demand excessive pledges from candidates. Ib would have a most mischievous effect to assume that capital is inimical to labour. •