CABLE SUMMARY.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2573, 8 January 1889, Page 2

CABLE SUMMARY.

|By Hlkctric Tklkokaph—Coi'yhigiit.')

London, January "). Emix Bey is said to have been the " White Pasha " who defeated the Dervishes.

A train has been snowed np on the Tiflis railway, south of the Caucasus. and many passengers frozen to death,

General Grenfell has left Suakim with a portion of the British troops. 3000 men will remain as a garrison.

Ileav}' fighting between the Germans and Arabs on the Zanzibar coast is reported.

Mr Gladstone now states lie does not desire the restoration of the Pope's temporal power, but that his prestige be maintained. A lad of 19, in Glasgow, attempted to imitate ".Jack the Ripper " by stabbing a woman. It is said Princess Louise of Wales is engaged to the Earl of Fife.

A Bill incorporating the Nicaragua Canal Company, has passed Congress. The Foreign Relations Committee of digress have rcpoited favourably on Senaror Edmond's resolution against any Enrop an Government. being allowed to cut the Panama Canal.

The Maori footballers defeated the Kirkstiiil f'lub i>y two goals and a try to ono goal The Servian Ministry lias resigned.

Professor Goffclcen, who was charged with the publication of the Emperor's diary, has been released, and proceedings abandoned. Mr Thomas Sexton, M.P., has been re-elected Lord Mayor of Dublin.

A girl ten years of nge, lias liei-n outraged and i nurd fired at Youthliridgo, Somersetshire. Tin; body was shockingly mutilated. T o arrests have, v<■ t■ been made.

The appointments of (Sir 11. VV. Norman as (Jovernor of (Queensland, and of Earl of Kintore as Governor of South Australia, have been gazetted.