CAULK SUMMARY.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2914, 19 March 1891, Page 3

CAULK SUMMARY.

(lIV KI.KCTIIIC TKI.KCHAPH.—COPVr.Ii'.HT.) London, March It. Mr .T. Moiu,l;y has been offered a seat on tin. , Liibour Commission. The feeling is turning in favour of Sir Charles llilke, m<l attacks on him lire being deprecated. At the meeting of the Bank of England shareholders, a profit, of threequirters of a million was reported, and a dividend of five nnd three-quar-ters per cent declared, Mr Lidderdaln, Governor of the Rank, said the liabili ties of the Burings Bardc amounted to £'21,000.000, nnd the assets to The outlook was hopeMarch 10. Sir Josoph Whit well Pease will interview Mr J. B. Patterson, formerly Commissioner of Trade and Customs, in Mr D. Gillies' Government, in Victoria, with reference to prohibiting iraportatiod of opium into the Australian colonies. The Australian torpedo gunboat Karrakatta's trial trip was unsuccessful, and she is now engaged in repairing her machinery at Sheerness. The Right Hou. Mr Lowther, in addressing a meeting at Cambridge, declared that free trade was a mistaken idea, as it throttled industries, and he believe! it would drive the colonies tc atoms. March 11. The Times s:iys that Lord Hartington will probably be chairman of the Labour Commission. The betting on the boat race is 7 to 4 on Oxford. Mr Justin Stephen, under medical advice, has resumed his duties on the bench. March 18. Tht! Supreme Court has granted a writ of habeas corpus in the case of Mrs Jackson, who was recently forcibly abducted by her husband. A telephonic communicatian between London and Paris has been successfully carried out. HoNOKONO, March 14. Three kundred Chinese pirates have been beheaded at Kwaiig-tung. r.VUIS, March 14. News from T.onquin reports that the rebels sacked Bobo, and massacred the French otHeials. The French Government are preparing a Bill giving depositors in Banks greater guarantees of safety. CaUTTTA. March 10. Towards of 21)0.000 Hindoo* took purt'iu grand religious services in this city. Advantage was taken of the opportunity to protest against thn alteration in the age of consent. Tlvj proceedings caused great cxeitinuiit in the city. Bkl'SSF.i.s, March l(j. King Leopold visits London to consult the Imperi-il Government in connection with Congo affairs. Madrid, Maich IG. The Spanish Government disputes the German protectorate over Provident lslar.,l. IV.'.r.riHAir.-;, M;".vh 11. The Servian r.eli'.-al.s a-lvocati. , the expulsion of both 'ho Kiurr and Quoon. Br.iiU.v. March 14. Dr. Migrier will probably bo General Caprivi's successor as Chancellor. March 10.

General Yon Caprivi has ordered the Governor of Alsace-Lorraine not to relax the passport regulations. This is looked on as a reply to the inhospitabh) treatment of tho Empress Frederick. Yiii.vx.v. March 11. Baron Ilirsch has given half-a-mil-lion to help the Jewish emigrants to the United States. Caiuo, March 10. News has been received from Khartoum that a magazine exploded at Omledman, and that a hundred perlons were killed. New York, March 17. There is evidence that influenza is spreading in Chicago, and fully iifty thousand of the residents arc affected by it. It is estimated that one tenth of the Chicago police are affected. Valparaiso, March 16. The Government troops have sustained a further defeat. Washington, March 16. The excitement among the Indians is increasing again. Most of the patients who escaped from the lunatic asylum at Nashville, when it caught fire, have been recaptured. Buda-Pestii, March 16. The swamp below this city, containing three-quarters of a million acres, which had boon reclaimed at a, cost of £'20,000,000, has been inundated, and the crops destroyed.