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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2887, 15 January 1891, Page 2

CABLE SUMMARY.

(BY KLKCTKIU TkXIMIUI'U.—OOt'YItIOHt.) Luxi'j"\. January 10. Thk fund organised by Mr Balfour and (ho Etui of Zetland, for the relief of distressed families in Ireland, now amounts to i'bS.OOO. Lord Carrington subscribed £100. Mr Balfour's Irish Fund has iiii creased to £20.0(10. Dr. Mageo. Bishop of Peterborough, has been appointed Archbishop of York. General Booth has increased the sum which he considers necessary to have in hand from £100,000 to £i:S(>,OO ; and lie also asks that the whole of the sum for the purposes of the projected colony shall be placed entirely under his control. Ihe Thames is ice-bound. There are eight inches of ice on the Serpentine. A thaw has set in both in England and on the Continent. By a collisiou between two passenger, steamers in the Firth of Forth, thirteen passengers were drowned. Dr. Browne, Bishop of Winchester, who is 80 years of age, has resigned. Silver is at 4s Sfd. Paris, January 12, Crowds of people congregated round the doors of the Minister of Finance's office all the night previous to the day 011 which the loan was to be floated. January 13. Nine people have been drowned by the breaking of ice 011 tba Scire. Wasiu.ngto.v, January 12. Mr J. G. Blaine is demanding reparation from the Spanish Gov Tmout for outrages committed by the natives 1 it' the Caroline Islands on American residents. Experiments are b ing made in differ n(s parts of the United States to test the feasibility of producing rain at will by the explosion of dynamite among the clouds. Bi;nux. January 12. It is reported in this city that the Emperor AVill am is arranging for a conference to discu-s the question of general disarming throughout Europe. A Bill is before the Prussian Lower House to restore the Guelph Fund to the Duke of Cumberland, son of the ex-King of Hanover. Nt:w York, January 12. By a collision 011 the elevated railway an engine was thrown into the street.