CABLE SUMMARY.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2628, 16 May 1889, Page 2

CABLE SUMMARY.

(l)V KI.IX'TItIO TULKOHAPH — C'OI'YIUGHT.) London , , May 14. Tni'; proposed pliii of defences lit Yam , Olivers his created a stir in W;isl;inglo;i on (lie grounds that the eastern coast will be at tho mercy of England. The Bishop of Lincoln's protest against the constitution of the Bench of Bishops has been dismissed with costs. Nineteen mills have joined tho paper ring. j)r. Oronin, the missing doctor, turned up in Toronto. Ho had fled from the vengeance of the Clan-na-Gael. Tho Sugar Convention Bill has been postponed. The Government will consider tho question of a Eoyal Prince as viceroy of Ireland. £5000 in sovereigns were stolen from the s.s Iberia, from Sydney. Obituary : Irving Bishop, the thought reader, from hysteric catalepsy. It is understood the paper syndicate, will increase prices by live per cent. Replying to a question in tho House of Commons, Sir James Ferguson said no reports had been received by the Government, asa to the alleged persecution of Protestant natives at Mare Lsland, one of the Loyalty group. The Naval Defence Bill has passed the committee stage in the House of Commons. Baron Eeuter has obtained fresh concessions from the Shall of Persia, which will enable him to establish an Imperial Bank, and to work the shale mines in that country.