CABLE SUMMARY.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2519, 1 September 1888, Page 2

CABLE SUMMARY.

[Ry Electric Tjklkghai'h—Copyright.] London, August 28. The Thibetans have deferred the attack cn the Brisish position. The heat in the llecl Sea has been intense, and several deaths have occurred on the through steamers. Mr Dillon, since his imprisonment, has become depressed and emaciated. The French naval manoeuvres has been suddenly stopped, in order not to irritate Italy. The Princess of Wales has gone on a visit to her sister, the Empress of Russia. Order has now been"--restored in Zululand. Mr J. G. Blaine, suggests that the Fisheries Treaty should remain in abeyance for a year. Messrs Chaffrcy Bros', irrigration settlements in Victoria, have attracted attention in England, and steady emigration to them is likely (o follow. The Sultan of Morocoo denies committing atrocitics in revenge for the murder of his son, France states she will sign the Bounties Treaty, when all the sugarproducing countries agree to identical fiscal laws. A Nihilist plot his been discovered in St. Petersburg, Six thousand tons of beet sugar were destroyed by the recent fire in Hamburg. Canon Jas. Fleming, of York, is a candidate for the Bishopric of Chester.