CABLE SUMMARY

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2910, 10 March 1891, Page 3

CABLE SUMMARY

(BY ELECTRIC TKMtfIRAPH.—•COI'YIIIOHT.) London*, TMarcli 6. Tiik Times says that Lord Loch and Mr Cccil Rhodes will niturn to Capotown well satisfied with the parleying over South African affairs. England adheres to the agreement of the 20th of August last, except as to the boundary of MnnicahinJ, which has been fixed at, the thirty-third degree east, hut Portugal refuses to concur. Contracts for the. settlement of the Argentine finances have been signed, and the feeling in the city has improved. Mr Robert Lindsay Aritrobus junior partner in the wall-known banking firm of Coutts and Co., of Strand, W.C., committed suicide today by shooting himself. Beiu.i.v, March 7. Bismarck will be nominated asa candidate for membership of the Reiohs'ag- , r , - March i, It is reported that a reconciliation has been, brought about between Prince < Bismarck and Count von Capri vi. Paris, March T. The French Customs committee advise the free, admission of wools, raw hides, and flax. Washington, March 7. The United Htatos will admit partly prepared rabbit skins duty free. Rome, March 7. Prince Napoleon is in a critical state. Capetown, March 6. Details of the massacre in Madagascar show that eleven victims had their 'heads sawn off. The women who were killed were first subjected to great indignities, and their bodies afterwards thrown to the dogs. New York, March T.

Mr Chfumcry Depew, one ot' the railwny magnates of the United States, and other directors and officers of tbe railway compiin)', have been arrested in connection with the collision which took place between trains in a tunnel on the Now York railway 011 the :21st ult., resulting in the death of several passengers. San Francisco, March 6.

It is reported hero that Colonel Ashfard conspired to seize tho Hawaiian Government, retaining tho Queen as a, fi"nru-head, lint tho American Consul''intervened. The Hawaiian Government nro strongly resisting tho Queen's command to resign. Tho American Consul at Honolulu lias threatened to land a body of murines to prevent bloodshed in tho event of ;i revolution breaking out.