CABLE SUMMARY.
Mr Chamberlain, speaking at Birmingham, said he did not believe that the commercial competition of Germany would overpower that of Great Britain, for the national character of the British would enable them to retain the trade. The New Zealand Land Company has declared a dividend of 3£ per cent. An American syndicate has agreed to advance thirty million taels to construct seven hundred miles of the Han-kow-Pekin railway. Jhe Standard announces that Great Britain has agreed to arbitrate with Venezuela more liberally, though not unreservedly. Lieutenant Bruseartz, who killed an engineer in a cafe at Carlsruhe, has been sentenced to four years' imprisonment in a fortress, and dismissed from the army. The Canadian Government has appointed Mr Standford Fleming to represent the Dominion at tho Cable Commission. It is understood that Canada would welcome the appointment of a third Australian delegate.
There is great ferment in Eastern Asia Minor, and massacres are feared. The Sultan's Albanian and Turkish Guards quarrelled, and several on both sides were killed.
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Waikato Argus, Volume I, Issue 47, 27 October 1896, Page 2
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169CABLE SUMMARY. Waikato Argus, Volume I, Issue 47, 27 October 1896, Page 2
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