CABLE SUMMARY.

Waikato Argus, Volume IV, Issue 245, 10 February 1898, Page 3

CABLE SUMMARY.

Captain Flakuisos, with a force of two hundred Sikhs and a thousand Ugaodaa, is trying to pre vet. t the Soudanese reikis from crossing the Nile and marching into The situation is extremely grave. It is feared that a thousand Soudanese in Luanda will rebel. A man named Fry, residing in the suburb of Glenusmond, Adelaide, shot Ids wife and three daughters, and then killed himtelf With the fifth bulla. The wife and one daughter are dead, and the o'her two are badly injured. It is supposed the mail's miud was unhinged th ougli the continuous hot weather. A eje'one, accompanied by torrents of rain, at Matkay, Quecos'aud, completely destroyed a number of build ngs, ami unroofed and damaged many others. Tho Wcsleym and Presbyterhn church s wcie blown off their foundations, and will require rebuild ng. During the height of the gale the steamer Brinawarr went athore. The river rose rapidly, and the low poitioii3 of the town were fl.oiled. It is cow falling. Immense dom ge was done to the sugar cane. During a fire at Boston, six firemen were killed by filling walls. Many others were injured. Captain Frank Ford Fenton, who was killed in an engagement with the uUives iu the Fdiba cli-trict, in West Africa, was captain of the lltli Hussars. Seventeen additioral British commiss r oned and other olli.-era have been despatched to Lac,os, West Africa. A steam launch capsized at Kiel while conveying a guard to a man-o'-war. Nine sailors and five wo.knim were drowned. Chief Justice Kotze, of the Transvaal, in a letter to President Kruger, says the agreement to amend the Grondwet, or Constitution, so as to define the exact position of the judges, is still unfulfilled. He now repudiates the ai rangemuit come to by the judges last year, not to test in future any laws of the Volskraad. The failure of the harvest is ctusing terrible disttess in Jentral and South Eastern Russia.