CABLE SUMMARY.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2554, 22 November 1888, Page 2

CABLE SUMMARY.

f 15v Ei.kctkio Tui.iicu —Coi'vnuiiit.J London, November 18. Mr Harrington, Secretary of the National League, lias apologised to Sir J. Hannen, and his examination was proceeded with. The Indian Government will not accept money assistance from the native Pfii.ces, but advise them to raise their troops to a high pitch of efficiency. English officers and arms would be supplied to them. The Dowager Empress Victoria of Germany is on a visit to England. Mr Dillon leaves for Australia iu December. Sir J. Gorst has refused the Governorship of Newfoundland. November 20. Three thousand troops have been ordered to Suakim from Cairo. Russia assumes a protectorate over Coren. The members of the missions in the Zanzibar country have been escaping to the coast. The Dowager Empress Victoria has arrived at Windsor. The demand of the iron workers in the North of England for an advance of 10 per cent, lias been submitted to arbitration. M. Licht, the sugar expert, estimates the European beet crop will exceed last year's by 130,000 tons. The average yie'd is expected in sugar producing colonies. The Pope will shortly issue an Encyclical Letter in favour of a general disarming. Relations between Italy and France are of a more pacific nature. Mr Cecil Raikes,Postmaster-Gene-ral, stated in the ' louse of Commons that the Government were ready to commence a fourpenny postage rate on the first of January, if the colonies were willing to agree to a uniform reduced rate by direct services. St Petersburg, November 20. Several large failures of grain merchants are reported here, and also at Moscow and Odessa. Rome, November 20. Friendly relations between Italy and Zanzibar have been renewed. Suakbi, November 19. A strong garrison is being established here, and reinforcements are arriving, preparatory to another attack on the Arab trenches.