CABLE BREVITIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10035, 28 April 1894, Page 4

CABLE BREVITIES.

It ia reported that the Sultan of Turkey will visit England shortly.

Mr D. Gillies takes charge of the Victorian Agency-general on Monday.

The British Government are directing the construction of a col 3 store at Gibraltar.

Mather, the Anarchist, a friend of Henri now in custody, has been arrested in Paris.

Cape Colony will send representatives to the Ottawa Conference if it can be postponed till September.

Her Majesty invests Sir Cfaorge Grey with the office of Privy Councillor at Windsor on Monday.

Mr Wragge .predicts heavy weather over the southern portion of New Zsaland and adjacent waters within the next few dajs. The Brazilian rebel warship Aquidaban, which was suck by the loyalist warship Gustave off Desterro, has been raised.

Toe Port Said Refrigerating Company have secured a site for storage at Malta at a cost oE LiO.ooo, and the works will be finished in six months.

Tho Coinaga Committee of the Lower Hou;e of the United States his rejected Senator Dyei's Silver Seigniorage Bill in favour of free coinage. la the Legislative Assembly last night the new Mining on Pri«,ate Lands Bill was put through its final stages, and is to be forwarded to the Council.

The Government building in Jefferson, Missouri, has been destroyed by fire, and it is reported that many persons were killed in attempting to make their escap9 from the burnicg buildinr.

At the annual meeting of the Melbourne Chamber of Oommerca the president ia his address said the colony had at last got over the down grade and was now fairly started on a eater up grade. Sir Saul Samuel is urging that it is unfair to exclude the owners and create (sic) the Coßta Rica Packet sff.iir on a technical point. The principles of nnitj and justice ought to be applied to the cafe.

The Broken Hill constables, White and Shiels, -who were charged with the manslaughter of the man Considice,, have been acquitted, the jury findirg that the accased were justified, under the circumstances, in drawirjg their revolvers and firlug on the man.

Mr W. Weddel (orWeddel and Co., colonial produce agents) is in Paris urging the French Minister cf War to purchase Timara and Geslong mutton, and to utilise tho ship at Rouen for cold storage purposes. Tfcere are complaints that the bones of mntton in all the vessels that have recently arrived from New Zealand have had an odour, which, it is believed, is duo to defective freezirg in the first instance.

The Marina Conference sitting at Hobart adopted a scheme for uniformity in coastal trade certificates. The Hod. P. Fysb, the Tasmatsian Colonial Treasurer, who was president at the conferecce, said they must break down the barriers that had too long existed between the colonies In regard to the federated lighthouse system.. He also hoped to see a universal postal system, and the accomplishment of federation, which all desired.