CABLE SUMMARY.

Waikato Argus, Volume V, Issue 376, 6 December 1898, Page 3

CABLE SUMMARY.

The Imperial Parliament has been summoned to meet on February 7. The British Government has granted a eift to Barbados of £40.030. and to St. Vincent a gift of £25,000; also a loan of £50,000 to each. The Austrian Emperor's jubilee is being celebrated quietly, but sympathetically. A striking feature d! the celebration is the subscription of 30,000,000 florins to charities. Two nomad tribes on the Moorish frontier haviug sworn to annihilate one another, a party of Beneuuils surprised and massacred 300 Benefids, treating the prisoners with awful cruelty. Eleven thousand troops are reinforcing the army stationed in that part of Caucasia which borders on Persia. In connection with bis offer to assist in resuscitating the West Indian sugar industry, Sir Thomas Lipton will despatch experts to Barbados immediately. He says he requires a substantial guarantee against the possibility of a crushing disaster. The Pre?s strongly supports Mr Heuniuer Hcaton's appeal to the Australasian Premiers to adopt the Imperial Jk penny postage scheme, though the ditti•P culties in the way of the various colonies adopting the proposals are but little ventilated. Mr James Tyson, the well known millionaire, is dead. He was 75 years of age. "Mr Alger, the Minister for War, suggests that America should build a railway through Cuba at a cost of 20,000,000 dollars. He also advises the enrolment of a Cuban native police force Miss Muriel Griffiths, the Sydney violinist, with the. assistance of Miss Beatrice GrifHths, pianist, and Miss Theresa Sievwright, a Mew Zealand soprano, gave a recital in London wlrch proved a success. The outbreak of plague in Madagascar is severe.