CABLEGRAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10037, 1 May 1894, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

BKITISH AND FOEEIGN.

Special—By Telegraph—Copyright.

THE CHANCELLOR OF THE ' EXCHEQUER. London, April 29. The National Observer says that Sir W. V. Harcourt will resign before the next Budget speech has to be delivered. TBE BCOTOH GRAND COMMITTEE. The House of Commons pa3sed the second reading of tho Scotoh Committee Bill by a majority of 25. THE PACIFIC CABLE. The Economist considers the charges of the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company exorbitant, but thinks it unlikely that Great Britain will subsidise the Pacific cable. THE ANARCHISTS. The LoDdon police raided the offices of a German Anarchist newspaper and seized it while being published. Finelon, clerk in the French War Office, recently arrested, confessed that he acted as a medium of the Anarchists in Paris and London. OHOLERA. Cholera Is extending in Portugal. AN APOLOGY DEMANDED. Some French naral officers who visited the old Saraglio in Constantinople were arrested, but afterwards liberated. Tbe French Embassy demands an apology for their treatment. SMALLPOX IN CHICAGO. Owing to the insanitary condition of the city of Chicago, an epidemic of smallpox has broken out. Two hundred cases have been reported. All the schools have been clossd. DESIRES TO BE A MARTYR. April 30. Henri, the convicted French Anarchist, refuses to sign a petition for his repiieve, and glories in what he calls his martyrdom. . SWAZILAND. Tha Queen of Swaziland refuses to sanction the transfer of her country to the Transvaal Republic FIGHTING IN BRAZIL. Tho President of Brazil is dislodging the insurgents from the coast cities. At Pontogrosea some resistance was offered, and many wera killed.