CABLE SUMMARY.

Waikato Argus, Volume IV, Issue 251, 24 February 1898, Page 3

CABLE SUMMARY.

TfiK remainder of the Finland fishermen, carried away on the iceberg, have been rescued. The Laird Company have contraoted to build immense resc;vuirs in the Upper Nile region at Assuan aud Assuit. Irishmen resident in London celebrated the centenary of the 1793 rebellion with great enthusiasm. The Canadian trade report shows that tradc.increased3l,Coo,ooo.iols. during the past seven months, compared with the corresponding period last year. The tug lias returned to Newcastle from an unsuccessful search for the Atacama's missing boats. A vessel passed Wollougotig with a boat supposed to resemble one of the Atacsma's, in tow. The Russian newspapers wai n Europe that the candidature of Prince Georgo of Greece for the governorship of* Crete, which was warmly supported by the Czar, has not been abandoned. The House of Commons rejected an amendment condemning the severity of the Indian Sedition Laws, and adopted the Address* in-Keply. The Council and Governor-General of India have passed the Bill amending the laws in relation to sedition. Rear-Admiral W. J. Wharton, hydro grapher to the Navy, has been selected chairman of the committee appointed to deal with the proposal to establish an all-British cable between England and Cape Colony and between the Cape and Australia.