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Waikato Argus, Volume III, Issue 209, 13 November 1897, Page 3

CABLE SUMMARY.

It is reported that goldfields have been discovered at Koyufcuk River, Alaska, similar to Klond ke. A memorial, signed by 12.000 manufacturers of Lancashire, urging the O ivernment not to tamper with monometallism, has bean presented to Sir M. Hicks-Beach. Mr Chamberlain, in the course of a speech at Glasgow, said when Great Britain some time ago, standing alone and friendless, was threatened fiom quartets least e\'| ccted, the first offer ot support emana'ed fr m eoloi.i.sts, who were willing to make any sacrifice to coire to her aid. 1 he Ching'u has left FoochoW for Australia with 500,0001 b of tci for ill ports, making the total export to Australia and New Zealand to date 4,500,0001 b It is not expected that more than 250,0001 b will be further shipped, uiakin : the total 4,750,0001 b for the season. A shocking domestic tragedy has taken place in Puis. A French merchant, named Dreyfus, together with his wife, who was an Englishwoman, and three daughters, aged respectively seven, ten and thirteen, committed suicide by inhaling t' e fumes of charcoal after having partaken of a final icpist. Mis Dreyfus lift a letter addressed to the police, declaring that tiny had been ruined by a swindler and were unable to face poverty. Dreyfus was cousin to Capta'n Dreyfus, who was publicly degraded in 1595 for the alleged sale of military secrets to a foreign nation and banished to a lonely island off French Guiana. The French and German n-wspapers, commenting on Lord Salisbury's Guildhall speech, speak of it as conciliatory and pacific. The ship Cordilla foundered off Valparaiso owing to the bal'ast 'liiftirg during a gale. All the crew, excepting Hie first and second mates and the captain, were drowned.

The Glasgow Joiners' Union has forbidden members to handle American made doors.

A duel which ha.l been arranged between Sir Hohei t Peel and the Duke of Cerel'a, a Neapolitan noble, has been declared off. Sir Robert Peel apologised, having discovered that he had made a mistake in regard to the causes which led to the arrangement of the duel. Sir W. Laurier, the Canadian Premier, states that he has reason to believe that 15,000 Australians will proceed to Klondike in the Spring.