CABLE SUMMARY.

Waikato Argus, Volume V, Issue 368, 17 November 1898, Page 2

CABLE SUMMARY.

A Belgian force has routed the Dervishes at Bor, on the Bahr-el-Jebel, some distance south of Fashoda. Mr John Sherman, ex-Secretary of State, says the silverite movement is dead for a generation. A fire in Dawson City, Klondyke goldfields, has destroyed half the business portion of the town. Lucheni, the murderer of the Empresß of Austria, has appealed against his sentence. • Smelting works are being erected at Ellesmere, a port on the Manchester ship canal, near the mouth of the Mersey. It is hoped there Mill be a large demand for Australian ores. Claude Vautin, the mining manager who wa9 arrested in London a few days ago, has been adjudicated a bankrupt. His liabilities are £69,785. The annual meeting of the New Zealand and Australian Land Company has been held The profit for the year was £55,737. A dividend of 5 per cent, was declared and £17,237 carried forward. A sensation has been caused in Germany by the publication of a letter written by the Regent of Lippe-Detmold, a principality in the north-west of Germany, protesting against the Emperor limiting the honours due to his (the Regent's) family. The Regent has appealed to the Federal Council to intervene, but the Council is powerless in the matter.