CABLE SUMMARY.

Waikato Argus, Volume I, Issue 71, 19 December 1896, Page 2

CABLE SUMMARY.

© The Dominion Government is asking the United States to mutually relax the cattle quarantine regulations. Baroness L. Rothschild, whilst stag hunting at Chamant, France, was thrown from her horse and, striking a tree, was killed instantly. The Toronto Navy League petition England for the protection of trade routes, and the partial manning of cruiseis by colonists. Five hundredweight of Queensland tobacco realised 1 Jd per lb iu London. It was rank in growth and was flavourless. Forty Moscow students have been arrested and political documents in their possession seized. News has been received that the Italian authorities have executed five Somalis for participation in the recent Ceechi massacre. The Times' correspondent at Athens says a rebellion in Macedonia is .being planned for next year, after first fomenting a rising in Crete. The Italian Ministry report that of the additions to the navy sanctioned in June, 1887, 28 ironclads and 61 torpedo boats have now been built. M.M. Godard and Surconf, two French aeronauts, will attempt to reach the North Pole, under the auspices of tbe French press. Bohan has been sentenced to death for the murder of Callaghan, near Lerida station, Queensland. Four thousand navvies are employed on the Panama Canal. The fire at Cecil Rhodes' residence was the result of incendiarism. His Zimbaloze relics were destroyed. The Indian military authorities have approved of a bullet invented by Captain Bertie Gordon Clay, and consider that it will be a great improvement on that now in use in the Lee-Metford rifles. The Portuguese Government havo apologised to Germany for the affront offered the German flag iu Delagoa Bay. Many Boers are assembling at Puardekraal, to celebrate Dingaans' Day. There is, however, not much excitement in the Rand. Baron de Courcel, French Ambasador to London, is retiring. The cause is unknown.