CABLE SUMMARY.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2898, 10 February 1891, Page 3

CABLE SUMMARY.

{|(V KI.K< TI4IC TKI.KiSKAI'If.--COI'VKH.IIT.) L'i.vlhin, February G. I)i i;!Xi. tlio (Kdiato on the Religious Disabilities Hill, Mr \V. 11. .Smith !minted out flint, ill the event of Home Rule bein;;' granted to Ireland, the Viceroy would lie Mil- only link connecting the country with the throne, and it was essential lie should lie a Protestant. as a Cafliolic regarded his allegiance as clue to the Pope before the Uuoen. If is. howover, considered certain in political circles tluit tlio measure will pass Is tor ou. A report which, however, lacks confirmation, is in circulation to the ell'ect that France has agreed 10 buy Portugal's rights in South Africa and to abandon her claims on (he Newfoundland fisheries, on condition that England admits French sovereign rights in Portuguese Africa. Tlio principal clauses in Hie cable agreement have been cabled to Australia. for submission to the Postal Conference, whicli moots in Sydney j on tho 2fith instant. Two of the Australian cruisers, the ]iiluliieraug and the Karrakat la, are equipped al Chatham Dockyard. The k'atooinba. Mildum. and Wallaroo will not be ready before April. -Air J. Morle\ has given notice to move next Thursday that the action

of the Executive in arresting members at Tijiperary violates the rights of Irish citizens. I'AKIS, February T. The French Tariff Committee has decided to admit, all gums into France free of taxation. Tile .Budget Committee, which last month proposed a Mil-fax of seven francs on colonial sugars, have now reduced it to three francs. llkklin. February 5. Prince Bismarck, replying to a deputation, .-'aid attempts wero being made to disrupt the edifice of the Em] lire, Tlio Reiehslnsr has voted fen thousand pounds for exploring Africa. HKKXK; February 7. ]iy au avalanche in tlio caiiton of Ghirus, 22 persons were killed. Catkxowx, Febinary G. Mr Cecil Rhodes, the Premier, repudiates the statement that, concessions ha.ve been made to Portugal in Manicalar.d. and lie refuses to grant the Portuguese Government the strip :>f territory across the continent. AVasiii.vo'ki.v, February 'i. The Foreign Affair.-' Committee in the "Honsj have passed a .strong resolution of sympathy with tho -lews iu liussia, oil account of the hard treatment they are subjected to. The Silver Party will probably make au attack on the Fro-- Coinage; Supply Rill. In the Senate a resolution attacking tho Free Coinage Supply Hill was only carried on a narrow majority, ami tho general impression is that free coinage will lie smothered. Ni;w Yoiik, February 5. Advices from Central America, report l hat war between Guatemala, and Honduras is imminent.