CABLE SUMMAY.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2917, 26 March 1891, Page 3

CABLE SUMMAY.

— -+ — (iiv i;i,kcti;io TKi.Kr.iiAi-H.— (lorviiU'-iif.) Loxdox, jrmxli -':>. TllK Times .says that the [}en»alcse aro favouralile to tin; age of consent, licing raised. Lor.rPerliy lias been noininaLe.cl to the Labour Conference;. [«'. 0. I.icht, (lie sugar expert, estimates the campaign will show a surplus of lifty thousand tons. The bcut production fur six months gives, an increase of twenty-throe thousand tons. I'uii.s Mnivh 2.'i. The European Courts r.-cogni.se Prince Victor as head of the In) perinlist party. The Czar has hestowed the Jordon of the Order of St. Andrew on President Carnot. .March J-l. Tho Maritime Congress advise that a tax of ten francs be imposed on all ships entering the ports of Prance or her colonics. Rome, March - : >. The Pope lias ordered an inquiry into Prince Napoleon's death-bed confession. Kn:r„ Maul, 2M. Tlio German corvette, Cavola has returned, after a cruise of live years abroad, principally on the China station. ! for ollicers were accorded a hearty welcome on their return. Rul TA, Aliireh -•!. iSorvia iiiiil P.ulgnria are disagrceitig about the delimitation of their frontier. AV.\:sillX(iTn.v, .March 'IA. General G. Johnston, a prominent leader on the Confederate side in the American Civil war, is dead.