DELAYED CABLES.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11901, 8 December 1893, Page 2

DELAYED CABLES.

[Br Electr'c Telbgbai'ii— CorrmajiT.] London, December 5. The man Schneider, in whose house at Harapjtead n box of dynamite was found by the sheriff, is a director of a dynamite projectile company, and it is now believed that the packages of dynarait9 found on lac premises ware trade samoles. It is reported that Mr Gladstone is engaged in translating the whole of the works of Horace. His studies occupy him some hours daily. The Duke of Coburg (Prince Alfred oE Edinburgh) has resigned hh seat in the Privy Council, Mr Gladstone lias decline to agree to a temporary reduction of the eight hours principle in the Government departments in tho intoKEl of the unemployed. He says it is impossible to have a uniform rate c t working hours in the Government service. Throe more a-rests have been made in connpc'.ion with the recent dynamite outrace in Dublin. Tho War Ofli :o is arranging with the chief military hospitals in Great Britain to test tho suitability of Victoriantinno'i but tar. 'I ho Admiralty has selcck'd .i Committee to t3st and experimer.l. w'th Victorian -tinned butter at certain stations on tho homeward route, and also to test tho article at tho officers' mo? 3 tible. Tho .'icctjh miners, who struck some days ngo foi- an advance in wages, have asked Mr Gladstone to intervene with the colliery owners. Paris, Decercber 6. About 40,000 French soldiers are bsiag echeloned near the Italian frontier. Paris, December 6. Commenting on the work of the Delimitation Commission in Siam, the Parisian newspapers complain that the buffer State is of benefit oniy to England «nd China, to. Dupuy, the late Premior, has been elected President of the Chamber of Deputies.