CABLE SUMMARY.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2614, 13 April 1889, Page 2

CABLE SUMMARY.

(BY ELKOTIIIC TELEGRAPH.— COPYRIGHT). London, April 11. (JrEXEiiAL Boulanger will probably reside in England. He has been cautioned by the Belgian Government. Lord Bruce haa moved in the House of Commons that the conduct of the Calliope's officers and crew at Samoa be recognised. Mi- Thomas Buckland, of Charters Towers, Queensland, has commenced an action against the Echo for £25,000 damages for libel in stigmatising him as an absconder. Cholera is raging at Surat, in India, destroyed by fire a few days Russia is massing troops on the Austrian frontier. Thirty-five vessels have been lost during severe gales in Chesapeke Bay, Moss. O'Brien's term of imprisonment has been reduced, and he will be liberated on May 22nd. Michael Eugene Chevreul, the Paris centenarian, is dead. The Shah will visit England in July. _ Cheu Kwin has been appointed Chinese Ambassador in London. Sir Charles Dilke refuses to reenter public life and stand for Battersea, as he is fully engaged on a great work on the British Empire. Sir Graham Berry has convened a meeting of the several AgentsGeneral in London, to discuss the position of the colonies in relation to the Trust Funds Investment Bill, introduced by Mr H. H. Cozens-Hardy, M.P. for Norfolk. Sir Saul Sumie.l, Agent-General for N"ew South Wales, suggests that the Colonial Governments allow trustees to sue them in London in the event of default: being made in the payment of principal or interest.