CABLE SUMMARY.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2588, 12 February 1889, Page 2

CABLE SUMMARY.

[iJV KliKCTilic T HI, ICC KA I'll. — COJ'Vj'UCIIT.I 1)')N", !'• hruii'-y !). Til ic Emperor of Ausi ria U:i"graphed i.o tin.' Pop" that Prince .Rudolph's death was the result of a duel and .suicide. '! he. oml nils gave permission for his burial according to the rites of (he Church. The Pjaroness Kessara, in a letter to her mother, states that her love, for tlio Prince, was so great that she resolved to die with him. The Ameer has 20,000 troops massed on the iiussian frontier, to pursue Ishak lvhan. The Chamber of Deputies upheld the action of M. Flotjuet, the Premier, in resisting priority being given the, revision of the scrulni d' arvnnd'memmt. The German missionaries in Zanzibar have been released on payment of a heavy ransom. The Imperial Government will legislate to enforce, penalties under the, Sugar Bounties Convention. Sir. J. Mac Donald, premier of Canada, will shortly resign. Serious riots have occurred in Home. Twenty thousand frozen sheep from the Argentine Republic have been landed in Glasgow. Serious rioting has taken place in the Belgian manufacturing districts. At th': wool sales there is keen competition, and prices received approach the highest rates obtained at the December sales, except for short and heavy merinos.