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Waikato Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2728, 7 January 1890, Page 2

CABLE SUMMARY.

(BY KLKCTRIO TICLEGIIAPH.— COPYRIGHT.) St. Petersburg, January 2. Thirty-two officers have been arrested on a charge of conspiracy to abolish autocracy. , . • General Ignatieff is in a critical condition. Lisbon, January 3. King Carlos, in his speecli at the opening of the Cortes, said that Portugal had tlio greatest claims on Africa <3f any nation. Bihjsski-s, January 2. It is the palace of Saem Haekeu, two miles from, this city, which has been burned. The damage is estimated at a million francs (£40,000).

San Francisco, January 3. The Californian Athletic Club offer a purse for a fight between Slavia and McAuliffe. London, January 2f. The divorce proceedings instituted by Captain O'Shea against Mr Parnell will be heard at Easter. A report that the latter intended to resign his seat in the House of Commons is without foundation.

The death is announced of Sadler, ex-champion sculler of England. January 4.

The influenza, which is attacking residents in England, is assuming the Russian type. Two hundred of the General Post-office employees are down with the disease, and some of the cases are very bad. The influenza is becoming more prevalent, and some of the cases are of a mild Russian type. There is a great ran on the hospitals, doctors and druggists. Postmen, policemen, the training schools and barracks have all been attacked by the influenza, which is now spreading to several of the country towns. The Empress Augusta, Dr. Dollinger, of Bavaria, and the Right Hon. Henry Chaplin, Minister of Agriculture, have been attacked with influenza. The mortality in Paris and the French provinces, in Vienna and Madrid, has been heavy. Out of 1,200 women employed in a French tobacco factory, only 50 have been able to continue work. Two French missionaries have been murdered by order of the Sultan of Amphilla, a district on the African Red Sea Coast. Benzon, the -Tubileee Plunger, who was recently adjudicated a bankrupt, is absent at Morocco, and refused to attend the bankruptcy proceedings. The authorities threaten to issue a warrant for his arrest.

Westgarth's circular urges Victoria to defer borrowing even a third of the amount originally proposed. Durban, January 5.

The Portuguese have again seized the British African lakes steamers, and have lowered the British flag. Mr 11. H. Johnson, British Consul at the Portuguese port Mozambique, is organising the natives of Nyassaland to assist the Makololos and Karanzos in repelling the Portuguese, who are concentrating their forces at Katunga. It is believed that lighting has already begun. Romh, January 3. At a consistory of Cardinals, His Holiness the Pope delivered an allocution contrasting the Church in tolerant countries with the bitter and unceasing persecution to which it was subjected by the Italian Government. His Holiuess said the claims put forth for the restoration of the temporal power were not due to human motives, but were necessary for the maintenance of the Catholic faith.

Warsaw, January 3.

A Nihilist chief named Dierra has oeeu arrrested in this city. In his possession were found pamphlets and letters involving some of the officers of the army.