CABLE SUMMARY.

Waikato Argus, Volume V, Issue 329, 18 August 1898, Page 2

CABLE SUMMARY.

The Parliamentary Committee appointed to investigate the telephone system in England recommends that drastic changes should be made, including the breakdown of the monopoly of the National Telephone Company. The report also states that England is miserably served in comparison with other countries. The Daily News states that Colonel John Hay, the American Ambassador in England, succeeds Mr Day as Secretary of State in President McKinley's Cabinet. Mr Chauncey Depew or Mr Whitelaw Reed is likely to succeed Colonel Hay as American Minister in London. The Hawaiian Government have paid 75,000 dollars to Japan in settlement of the immigration dispute.

Percy Cavill won the 600yds race at Exeter, beating Grearsley and four others.

The police raided a gambling house in Georgia. A general melee resulted. Two hundred shots were fired on both sides and eight persons were killed.

An excursion train from Paris was derailed at Lisieux. Ten persons were killed and 40 injured. Three weeks' army manoeuvres have commenced on Salisbury Ham. Fifty thousand troops are participating. Harvasting is general throughout Great Britain, and the nrospectsJß-e satisfactory.

Intense boat is being experienced in the South of England and in France. Many cases of sunstroke are reported in London and Paris. Several deaths are recorded. In a 72 hours' cycle race in Paris, (he competitors were terribly distressed with heat, and were drenched with water from a hose after every lap.