CABLE SUMMARY.

Waikato Times, Volume 2632, Issue 2632, 25 May 1889, Page 2

CABLE SUMMARY.

(:;v ix x'Titio tei.hgkai'h— eoi'viticiiT.) London. May 22. Til!-: siea;:i: i'Ci-r:n ui iiiiiperor, •*>;■> 7 lons, of Loud ill, collided ill till) Oil nine! '.vith fh'' steamer Beresford, I Hr» tons, of West, Hartlepool. The German Km eror foundered, a- d twenty lives were lost. Mr Willi.im O'i.'rien, who is bringing nil action for libel agiinsl; the, Marquis of Salisbury in cons ilience of statements made by the Premier during a .speech at Waterford in March last, lays his dnriges at .£IO,OOO. An application will be made for a change of venue to Manchester.

Count Kulnoky has warned Montenegro against supporting the claims of the rretender to the Servian throne. Mr Sampson Fox, of Leeds, lias given £45,030 to the J.loyal College of Music. Mr Goschen lias warmly eulogised Captain Kane and the oflicers and men of the Calliope for their conduct at Samoa. The Shah received a brilliant reception at Moscow. Canon Farrar is not likely to accept the. See, of Sydney. The Maharajah Dhuleep Singh has been married to Miss Wetherill, an English lady. The Empress of A ustria had an escape in a railway accident, ill which several carriages were overturned. The London Coal Duties Abolition Bill has passed its second reading in the House of Commons by a majority of IGO. The Edinburgh City Council has finally approved of the proposition f0 confer the freedom of the city 011 Mr Parnell by 22 to 16. The Freeman's Journal, commenting on Dillon's reception at Adelaide, declares that the Australian colonies, prosperously controding their own affairs us they do, are bound to favour Home Rule.