CABLE SUMMARY.

Waikato Argus, Volume V, Issue 334, 30 August 1898, Page 2

CABLE SUMMARY.

M. FATJRE, the President, and the Emperor of Russia exchanged compliments on the occasion ot the anniversary of M, Faure's visit, to Russia.

M. Pavloff has been appointed Russian Minister in Corea. A movement is on foot in Jamacia for annexation by the United States on the ground that it would be a benefit to the inlands. The authorities at Washington discourage the movement. The Washington authorities resent the proposal projected by the German Chauvinist press for the partition of Samoa,

The Cape elections, so far, show that the Afrikander Bund has gained nine seats, and the Progressive six seats. Doctor Smartt, a prominent member of the last Parliament, has been defeated.

Calvert's loss in connection with the Australian Review wis £14,000, not £IOOO.

The Sticker Chief, an Alaskan trader, has been wrecked, and 40 livc3 were lost.

The Times Quebec correspondent states regarding the American-Canadian difficulties that the Commissioners are more hopeful of arriving at a settlement on the t.riff question-than they have been represented.

Cross' menagerie has been destro3*ed by fire at Liverpool. Five leopards, four lions, and three tigers, snakes, bears, pumas, and hyenas were burnt. The tire created intense excitement.

Professor Haeckel, speaking at the Zoology Conference sitting at Cambridge, referred to the importance of recent discoveries of tos-sils in Java, which, he said, moved beyond the realms of hypothesis that man belonged to the primal order of lemurs. Monkeys and men, he said, were descended from a common stem.