CABLE SUMMARY.

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CABLE SUMMARY.

Mu Cecil Rhodes has sailed for England, but returns to the Cape shortly. Mr Gladstone, in the absence of any improvement in his health by a sojourn at Bournemouth, will return to Ilawarden. The Japanese elections have resulted in a small majority for tho Government. Tenders for tho Chinese loan will be opened to-day in London and Berlin. Financiers favourably receive it. The price of the loan is fixed at 90. The Irish Nationalists of London celebrated St. Patrick's Day by holding a banquet, at which Mr Dillon presided. The Chairman ventured the opinion that the peace which at prestnt prevailed in Ireland was only the prelude to a thunderstorm. Owing to America's good feeling toward's Britain, Sir Julian Pauncefote, the British Ambassador, is pressing tho arbitration scheme on the attention of the authorities. The Temps states that the French nav6l mobilisation is merely au experiment, to ascertain the exact time which would be required to provision the northern squadron. A member ol the Volksraad attests the correctness of the memorandum made by Mr Fotze of an interview in 1895, when President Kruger threatened him with suspension unless the Judges upheld the resolutions of the Volksraad. The delegate of the Colonial Office on the Cable Committee favours the Pacific cable. All the delegates of the other Imperial departments support the offer of the Eastern Extension Company for a new line to Australia from the Cape.