CABLEGRAMS

Colonist, Volume XXXV, Issue 7268, 12 March 1892, Page 3

CABLEGRAMS

By Telegraph -Per United Press Association LONDON, March 10. The arbitrator has awarded Mr Tim HeaJy £7CO against the ■ Freeman ' for libjl. The death is announced of the Earl of Denbigh. Snow has interrupted traffic in England. WASHINGTON, March 10. A blizzard is ragiog from Michigan to Montana. The railway oar.3 have beon thrown off tin lines, and fifty persons have been frozea to dea*h, SYDNEY, March 11. Butter, dairy, is quoted at lid ; factory, Id, The mutton en board the Elginshire is insured for £18,000 in London. Captain Pike, of H.M.S. Orlando, will assume temporary command of H.M.S. Tauranga. THELBOUIINEj March 11. T.be ;CTovermnent has cabled to Mr Stanhope, Minister of War, that the fortifications at Thursday Island and Kiog George's Sound are actually in coarse of construction. Bir Stanhope in the House of Commons reproached tho colonies fo: supposed apathy in the matter. The Railway Conimusioners' stheme of retrenchment provides for a reduction in salaries of from 2£ per ceni; to 10 per cent and an increase of from 5 to 10 per cent on rates for good?, and 5 per cant on passengers' fares The proposal is not acceptable to tha Cabinet, wbioh has pointol out that the savings suggested by the Ministers have been- completely ignored. The Cabinet is of opinion that the scheme now proposed will make the railways thoroughly unpor u'ar.