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Waikato Argus, Volume IV, Issue 293, 26 May 1898, Page 4

CABLE SUMMARY.

(BT BtECTRIC TELEIiIUI'H.—COPYRIGHT). London, May 23. Arrangements aro being made by Lloyd's to inspect the refrigerating machinery and chambers of frozen meat steamers before each outward voyage. Mesdames Albani and Melba and Miss Ada Crossley have been engaged to sing at the Leeds Musical Festival. Berlin, May 23. By a fire; in a mine at Dortmund, in Prussia, 4o minors perished. [The following messages were published iu our Special Edition yosterday.] London, May 23. In connection with tho proposal for the appointment of a convention to settle all existing controversies between Canada and America, the British and American Governments are discussing tho preliminary arrangements with regard to the appointment of the convention. Paris, May 23. The Temps etatos that France will only concede the British claims to Busa, in the Kingdom of Borgu, West Africa, on condition that compensation is granted which will facilitate tho full development of French commerce and permit France deriving benefit from the Berlin Treaty. Washington, May 24. Ex-president Harrison has accepted the position of counsel for Venezuela before the arbitration commission appointed to delimit the boundary between Venezuela and British Guiana. Pretoria, May 23. The reply of the Transvaal Executive to Mr Chamberlain's dispatch declines to recognise the suzerainty of Great Britain over the Transvaal since the Convention of 1884. The Executive maintains that tho Convention of 1881 is ineffective, and it reaffirms the right of the Transvaal Government to proceed to arbitration in despite ofGreat Britain. Mr Fischer, the unofficial member of the Executive of the Orange Free State, has declined the appointment of Secretary of State for the Transvaal in succession to Dr Leyds. Cairo, May 23. Representatives of the Egyptian forces, with 800 friendly natives, have seized the wells at Issafizes, on the borders of Kordofan.