CABLE BREVITIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10346, 29 April 1895, Page 2

CABLE BREVITIES.

Mark Twain visits Australia at- the end of the year. v '.' The trial of o.<c« Wilde and Taylor has begun in the Old Bailey. The Fruitgrowers' Conference at Hobait have formed an Australasian Federated Fruitgrowers' Association to protect |thetr iaterosts. . , . ....--.■. In tha Houso of Commons a bill was read for the first time empowering ti)eoonstra«tion ot light railways costing up to L3OOO per mile to assist the farmers; ■ Tho Horning Advertiser publishes a report that Victoria proposes to shortly issue a large loan, and the paper says that ucleas it is for redemption purposes it« *uccess is doubtful. Tha Agent-general for Victoria denies tha report. . .- - - ;.,-.. : ■ In the Downielibslmse at Melbourne th-9 jadge_ held that th<T Herald's articls out JJownie, the contractor, was clearly defamatory, but after a careful review of Ihi evidence he had come to the conclaaion thai ' the imputations wore justified by the facts. : Tiw Ew. Mr Clark, who has been.beford the New. South Walea courts several times ; lately endeavouring to obtain an order for ' tbe restitution of conjugal rights with his wife, has been acquitted on a charge of drnuksnuees. .-;.. ■-.' The Victorian Cabinet has considered tha proposed retrenchment scheme, and decided to carry it out almost in its entirety.' It ia expected that tha effect will bo a reduction in the Estimates of tbe year of about L 420.000. The railways are chiefly^ affeated, tb« extent of tbe reduction therein boing L 120.000. *~ Tv« New South Wale? police have received • information from tho British consul at '"''-' Baenos Ayres that Dix, implicated in the :.-.' robbery of amalgam from the Lncknow mine : in Ne'f South Wales, who left Newcastle as a eaiiur, died at sea from siokcess. Ihe police * dlsbalieve the accuiaoy of the report of his death, and hope to offset his arrest. ' ' r