LATE CABLE NEWS. [REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.]

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2220, 30 September 1886, Page 2

LATE CABLE NEWS. [REUTERS TELEGRAMS.]

Sofia, September 27. The Grand Sobranji has been convoked for the 24th of October. Notwithstanding the Russian ultimatum, the Regency has maintained an unyielding attitude, and the persons implicated in the arrest of Prince Alexander have not been released".

London, September 28. La France declares th.it tho slave ring in New Caledonia is at the bottom of the agitation about the New Hebrides, and advises the evacuation of those islands by France. ' Hanlan has offered to row Beach on the Nepean river, near Sydney. Mr Norton, in an interview with Sir G. Berry, explained that the statements attributed to him at the Paris Congress were misreported. He admitted that the working class of New South Wales endorsed the policy of Victoria regarding the New Hebrides. An important meeting in connection with the establishment of the Imperial Institute was held at the Mansion House yesterday, a committee being formed for the purpose of raising the necessary funds for carrying out the project. The Times considers South Kensington is an unsuitable location for the ' proposed Imperial Institute. The Prince of Wales has written to the committee which was formed for the purpose of presenting a testimonial to His Royal Highness for his exertions in connection with the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, declining a personal present, and requesting that th<» funds which have already been collected shall be devoted to the Imperial Institute. The committee have acquiesced in this proposal^ believing that the desire of tho donor* would be to act most acceptably to the Prince. September 2S. A company has been registered with a capital of £120,000, to purchase tho Bonnie Dundee mine at Charters Towers, in Queensland. Agrarian outrages have ofcurred in Kerry, where nineteen Moonlighters have been captured. A sculling match took place to-day on the Thames between Nelson and Largan for £100 a-side. It resulted in an easy victory for Nelson. The water was rough, and Largan gave up before completing*' the full distance.

New York, September 'St. Mr' Parnell lias written a tatter to the American Leagues, urging them to continue to find funds in view of the present coercion and avicMon in Ireland.

San "Fr \ncisco, September 27. The Union Company's s.a. M.iravoa left here on Saturday last at 4 p.m. for Auckland and Sydney.