CABLE FLASHES.

New Zealand Times, Volume LVIX, Issue 3007, 19 December 1896, Page 2

CABLE FLASHES.

The Shah of Persia visits Europe neit spring. At the Boor celebration, President Kruger said the Government would be true to the burghers* and would entertain goodwill to the British. God, ho said, had given the Boers libertyThe Venezuelan Government has ordered all arms and ammunitions in tho disputed Vouezuela-Guiana territory to bo deposited in the GoVoraniont store previous to the Congress to be field in February. ... A Paris correspondent, alluding to the resignation of Baron do Courcoi, French Ambassador to London, says’ one of the reasons was that he was greatly discouraged by tho difficulty of solving tho questions at issue with England.

Ihe trial of the Barcelona anarchists has* concluded, but the sentences have net been made public. If they are in accord with the Public Prosecutor’s demand, 28 will bo condemned to death and 59 to penal servitude. Lord Salisbury has informed Mr Mann, the Labour leader, that his expulsion from Hamburg was quite legal. The dock strikers at Hamburg are rioting. The English National Liberal Federation condemns the attempt'to enquire into the Board schools system, and insists that local control should accompany State aid. . It is stated by tho Italian Government that the Russians landed at Kahieta. solely for scientific purposes. The Dingloy Tariff Bill has been withdrawn from tho United States House of Representatives. The Indian Government is increasing its paper currency by two crorea of rupees. Seventeen persons have been killed by an explosion in a match factory in Bavaria. The French Chamber of Deputies has approved the Tunis Treaty. Tho balance-sheet of the New Zealand'and River Plato Land Mortgage and Agency Company shows a profit of J 220,501. A farther dividend of 3| per cent, is recommended, *£76.55 added to the reserve, and .£2154 carried forward.

A cattle train ran off the rails on a steep curve upon the Esk lino (Brisbane). Ono hundred were killed, and much damage done to rolling stock At a Melbourne Employers’ Union picnic, Mr McEacharn stated that ho expected shortly there would bo very serious labour troubles. It was not tho working men who sought to increase the differences with their employers but those who'received salaries for conducting the,men’s affairs. The labour troubles, however,' had not distressed the Employers’ Union so much of late a 4 absurd legislation.