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Waikato Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 2863, 18 November 1890, Page 3

CABLE SUMMARY.

(by electric telegraph.—corYKiGHT.) Loxdon, November 14. The total number of persons on board H.M.s. Serpent was 178, of whom only three were saved. , . The death is announced or .Major Goneral Charles Pasley, who served on the Staff of Major-Gonera! Pratt, in New Zealand, in l«6t>, when he was severely wounded. Tho Departmental Committee, dealing with the expiry of European Commercial troatios with Great Britain, has invited the various Agents-Gene-ral to submit a statement sotting forth whether the colonies wish to participate in the renewals. Mr Gladstone is too busy with political matters to assist General Booth in his colonising scheme. The dockers approve of tho General's plan. November 10.

A t temporary African convention between Portugal nnd England has keen signed. The ilea of raising a loan of £20,000 for the men on strike in Australia has teen abandoned. Mr Fitzgerald, delegate from the Australian unions, gous on lour through tho provinces to obtain relief for ths distressed strikers. Tho signalman who was arrested in connection with the railway collision ;it Tauntoii, has been committed for trial on tho chargo of manslaughter. The latest bulletins state that the Countess of Jersey is slightly imTho Trades Council has formally repudiated Mr Champion. Mr Burns declines to visit Australia. Mis 3 Eiordan, who confessed to shooting Professor Bright, of Oxford, in a fit of jealousy, has been sentenced to six years' imprisonment. H.M.S. iSerpent, wrecked off the coast of Spain, struck during the middle watch. Her boilers exploded, and the majority of those on board being asleep, there was no time to launch the boats. Tbe survivors agree that tho striking of tho ship on the ruuks was a terrible surprise to all on board, and they believe that the compasses were affected by miuerals on tho coast. Berlin, November 11. A bill submitted to the Federal Council of Germany abolishes the sugar bounties, and substitutes a tux of 22 marks per bundled Irilos. Exported sugars are exempted from the tax. In tho course of his speech at the opening of the Prussian Diet the Emperor William declared peace with all nations. Dr Koch promises to disclose the method of his consumption cure at a lecture on the 27th inst. The Primary Education Bill provides for religious instruction in all creeds. Sofia, J* o> ember 10. A train conveying soldiers in iSalonica, Rouraelia, beoame derailed, and thirty of the ocoupants were killed and forty injured. Buenos Aybes, November 10. The Government of tho Argentine Republic has released Messrs Baring Brothers, of London, from their engagements to provide a sum ot £6,000,000 for the construction of the Buenos Ayros waterworks. Ottawa, November 13. The sentence of death passed on Bircliall for the murder of an English tourist named Ben well was jarned out to-day. A bungle was made of tho execution, and it was fully six minutes before the condemned man was strangled. The body was interred within tho gaol walls.