THE CABLES.

Wairoa Bell, Volume V, Issue 178, 30 December 1892, Page 2

THE CABLES.

During 1892 the Russian Army was increased by a million men. The division on Mr Reid’s motion of censure in N-S.W. Parliament was taken late in the morning/ after an all-night sitting, the result being ; For the motion, 01 ; against, 68 ; majority for the Government, 7. The labour representatives voted with the Government, Baron Hirsch’s annual report shows that a to*al of 330,000 acres were purchased in the Argentine Republic, of which 180.000 acres are now under cultivation and settled by upwards of one thousand families. The report makes no reference to the project to form a colony in Australia. The New South VS ales wheat yield is estimated at an average of 17 bushels to the acre, and tba colony will probably have to import 700,000 bushels. Great excitement prevails in the Western States, owing to the discovery of new goldfields in Utah, on the Colorado River. Thousands are flocking- to the field. Nuggets of coarse gold from ten to fifteen ounces have been found. There is great excitement iu Adelaide over a quarrel between Mr Kingston, a member cf the House, and Mr Baker, a member of the Legislative Council, and a duel was at one time feared. The cause of the !rouble was a letter that Baker had written to the Trade and Labour Council. Kingston criticised the letter from bis place in the House: Baker spoke in the Council in reply, calling- Kingston a ‘ bully ’ and ‘ coward,’ ard saying- he had been found g-uilty of telling untruths. Kingston sent a letter to Baker and also a packet containing' a revolver and cartridges, and challenging Baker to meet him in front of ! he Town Hall, at 130 p.m. yesterday. Both kept the appointment, but the police arrested and detained Kingston. Baker refused to prefer a charge against him and he was released. The Attorney-General has the matter in hand, with a view to taking' further proceedings. Davit,t has been unseated for North Meath on the ground of intimidation by priests. The Orleauists are highly elated at the excitement over the Panama scandals, and are drafting a manifesto. M. Floquet admits that ho bribed the press for political purposes. The wreck of the Union Company’s steamer Nubian, at the entrance to Liston Harbour, is attributed to the ignorance of the pilot. A representative of the ‘ Argus ’ who travelled incognito through tire Solomon Group, investiga ing the Kanaka traffic, sums up his experience by saying that many British subjects would envy the lot of Kanaka labourers in Queensland. Mr Ben Tiliet, presiding over a lecture at Bermondsey, stated that since the dockers’ s' l ike t be wages of tire Loudon riverside labourers had increased by haif-a-million per annum. Labour in England, he said, was full of gratitude for the sympathy of the Australian labour party. The Admiralty, in deference to the wish expressed by the Royal Commission on Labour, have abolished overtime in order to give employment to move men. A portion of_ the Dublin Detective Office, which adjoins Dublin Castle, has been injured by the expolsioti of a dynamite bomb. Constable Sinnot was killed, his body being horribiy mutilated- The front of the building was wrecked. Sinnott kicked the explosive, which was lying on the pathway, thereby partly saving the building. The library of Mr J. Morley (the Chief Secretary for Ireland), surmounting the Detective Office, was shattered by the explosion. Reinforcements of police have been sent from London, and the Government buildings are now closely guarded.