CABLE SUMMARY.

Waikato Argus, Volume V, Issue 373, 29 November 1898, Page 2

CABLE SUMMARY.

The Board of Agriculture has decided to impose a prohibitive condition on the export ot old horses to Belgium, where they are used for human food. Admiral Canevaro, the Italian Minister for Foreign Affairs, has opened an AntiAnarchist Conference in Rome. Fifty States are represented. The fund established by the Lord Mayor of London, in aid of the sufferers by the cyclone in the West Indies, only amounts to .t'44,000. The Government will make a generous grant. The warship Kaiser, the German flagship on the China station which went ashore at Satnsah Bay, has been towed to Hongkong. There are three holes in the bottom of the vessel. The sentence of death passed on Dr. Whitmarsh for the murder of Alios Bayley has been commuted to 12 years' imprisonment. The Robt. Reed softgoods house in Australia is being converted into a limited liability company, with a capital of £350,000. The Sultan's Ministers are unanimous in urging the necessity for administrative reforms in Turkey. The London County Council has refused to permit Sunday concerts at music and other halls (or private gain, drawing a distinction between voluntary and commercial enterprise. Ihe decision stops the Queen'd Hall and similar classical concer's. President McKinley has given his approval to a proposal mad« by the Freemasons of Virginia to invite the Prince of Wales to attend the centenary of Washington's death.