LATE CABLE NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2358, 20 August 1887, Page 2

LATE CABLE NEWS.

(reuthr’s telegrams.) London, August 17. Messrs C. Smith (Sussex), and ll Docker (Derbyshire), both amateurs have agreed to join Shaw’s team. The New Zealand Antimony Company has been registered. The House of Assembly at the Cape Colony, and the Legislative Council at Xatal, have by large majorities refused t*» pass a vote in aid of the Imperial Institute. Mr Gladstone has publicly declared that he is favourable to the construction of the Channel Tunnel. In the match against Middlesex, Shrewsbury scored 2b? runs. An unsuccessful attempt has been madr witii dynamite to destroy the railway bridge across the River Foyle at Lifford, County Donegal. The American Government have seized four British vessels on the coast of Alaska. Tlie Antwerp wool sales opened to-day. The tone of the market is quiet, and prices one penny lower than the closing rates at la*t meeting. The Messageries Maritimes Company's new contract expires in 1003. Kio ije Janeiro, August 17. The Shaw, Savill, aad C».’s steamship Tainui arrived, this evening, from Lyttelton. Tlie carg« of frozen meat is m good condition.