CABLE SUMMARY.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2777, 1 May 1890, Page 3

CABLE SUMMARY.

(BY ELKOTKIC TELKdHAPII.— COI'YIiUSHT.) London, April 28. At the annual dinner of the Civil Service, Lord Wolseloy ridiculed the idea of the English navy being defeated, and Great Britain compelled to surrender in the event of her being engaged in war. He declared that it would be impossible for the enemy to blockade British ports, and prevent the introduction of supplies. Before the Colonisation Committee, te-clay, Sir F. Dillon Bell stated that a private company had a better prospect of successfully conducting an emigration scheme than *mb\e Imperial Government. In the House o£ Commons, today, Mr J. Chamberlain advocated that the control of land purchase in Ireland should be placed in the hands of County Councils. A meeting of Australian colonists and merchants will be held next month, when resolutions in support of Colonial Federation will be submitted. April 3G. Rev. Jas. Owen, of Swansea, has been elected president of the Baptist Union. Berlin, April 28. j The Emperor has reached Darmstadt, where he is to have an audience with Queen Victoria. The Nachrichten, published in Hamburg, asserts that the German ambassadors have been summoned to Berlin to confer with General Von Caprivi. Paris, April 28. The King of Dahomey complains that the French troops attacked him without declaring war. He states that he will not harm the French prisoners which he captured in January last, but that he will hold them as hostages until peace is declared between his country and France. Senegal sharpshooters have been despatched to reinforce the French troops in Dahomey. It is probable that an expedition to effect the subjugation of Dahomey will leave shortly. Condin, an Italian spy, has been sentenced to five years' imprisonment, and ordered to pay a fine of fiOOO francs, for sketching French fortresses. La Paix reasserts that the Emperor William is submitting proposals for a reapproachmenb with President Carnot. Lisbon, April 27. Major Serpa Pinto, who recently returned from the Shire district, Africa, has been appointed aide-de-camp to King Carlos. He was presented with a sword in recognition of his services while in Africa. Zanzibar, April 27. Emin Pasha is to be accompanied on his expedition to Central Africa by six hundred porters, five officers, and a body of Nubian soldiers. A clerk who has reached here from the equatorial provinces asserts that Einin's followers revolted because Emin desired to surrender the equatorial provinces to tho Malidi and his people. Bosnia, April 27. The Panslavists are organising a deputation to wait on the Sultan and the Czar with a view to inducing them to insist upon the military evacuation of Herzegovina by Austria. Sofia, Apiil 27. Prince Ferdinand is determined to suppress ovidence which would tend to implicate Russia in the conspiracy which was formed by Major Panitza to dethrone him.