CABLE SUMMARY.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2627, 14 May 1889, Page 2

CABLE SUMMARY.

(liY IW.l'.CTlile 'J'KLKUIIAPK— COPYRIGHT.) London'. May 11. in i', IJritish Government. li.-lvo. agreed to grant a subsidy of £7"),000 towards a Canadian-Atlantic service. The House fit' Lords rejected the Deceased Wife's Sister Rill by a niiijo.ity of 27. The Prince of Wales voted for the Hill. The daily attendance at the Paris Exhibition averages 70,000. The Canadian Government has limited tho Pacific Mail Service to ten years. It is proposed to prosecute General Boulanger. A light has occurred between the Germans and the rebel leader, Bushiri, at Ragamoyo. The latter fled leaving SOkilled The Germans lost three officers, several whites, and 40 blacks The. charge of murder against Father McFadden, will probably be withdrawn. Count Jouffroy d'Abbans has been appointed French Ambassador at Zurich. Father Damien the philantrophic priest at Honolulu, is dead. The theory at first set up thai Dr, Cronin, a friend of Major LeCaron's, had been murdered has been abandoned. The Messrs Shaw, Savill and Albion Company's new steamer Marniari has been launched. Ai-r'.l 12. The Times states that Mr Goschen's Gold Coinage Bill will probably be abandoned. Mr W. L. Bright, M.P. for Stoke-on-Treut, sails for Australia on Thursday.