CABLE SUMMARY.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2943, 26 May 1891, Page 3

CABLE SUMMARY.

(BV KI.KCTIUi: TK I.Kl: liA I'll. —COI'YIUMIT.) Ij< »N I"tn, May 22. On the application ol the Crown to-day tin: amount (if bail estreated in tin: a-c of Dillon and 0 I'iiiin, M.l', s, who left the country while on hail, Imt Mil's— fpicntly retain' il and surr'-ndc red themselves, was reduced to uiie hail. It in understood 111;«t tlic [lons. .1. A. Cliapiean 1111(1 Wilfred Laurirr, (■! Canada, will be knightwl on the OueenV liirtln l;iy. Her Majesty the lias returned to Balmoral Castle. In tlic Probate, 11i \ <jt e:j. and Ail iniralty Court on Tuesday, Captain O'She.i will apply to Inn: tin.- d. en.e made alt-solute in the case O'Shea v. O'Shea and I'arnell. A syndicate of American capitalists have agreed to convert the Russian loan at a half per cent lower than the price demanded hy the Kothschild.s. May 23 It is reported in shipping circles here that the Union Steamship Company of New Zealand arc making arrangements for running some of their s'eamers between Vancouver Island and Honolulu in connection with the San Francisco service. Mr H, M. Stanley leaves for Austialia mid New Zealand in September. His lecturing tour, which will occupy about four months, will he under the management of Mr R. S. Snnthe. Mrs Stanley will accompany her husband The tailors' strike is extending. One third of the masters have conceded the demands made hy the men for shorter hours and butter sanitation of workshops. It is reported that a syndicate of Germans and Italians have purchased .*50,000,000 roubles worth of Russian wheat. A large corner in Paris is also reported. I'Aiiis, May 22. The French grain crops arc in a critical condition, and the oflieial estimates of the yield show a deficiency in the home supply of twenty million hectolitre.?. The rumoured dissolution of the firm of the Rothschilds is denied. A waterspout broke over the Tuileries to-day, The gardens were much injured by the deluge of water.

Brussels, May '22. Stops arc being taken to revise tlie Belgian Constitution of 1831. Washington, May 22, The United States Government is enforcing the new immigration law. The tornado extended for a distance of 40 miles in length, ami two miles wide. Numerous houses were levelled to the ground. May 23. The Fenian leaders in America have issued a manifesto urging that active revolution will not provide a solution of the Irish problems, and they must wait till a war embarrasses England. The New York Herald declares that Mr Blaine has absolutely collapsed both physically and mentally, and censures him for concealing the fact. Mr J. CI. Blaine's family, and the medical men who are attending on him, deny the statement marie by the New York Herald that the Secretary of State is an imbecile. I Caiko, May 22. Cholera is spreading throughout Egypt. Buenos Ayres, May 22. The Bill providing for the repeal of the tax on dept.sits in private banks in the Argentine is now being discussed in Congress. New York, May 23. A sum of fifteen thousand dollars, being balance of the American-Irish fund, has been remitted to Archbishop CrokeandMr Justin McCarthy, to be devoted to the relief of the evicted tenants in Ireland. Li.siion, May 22. A Portuguese Ministry has been formed under d'Abren-Sousa. The linanccs of the country are improving. May 2;}. The Ministry under General d'AbrenSousa, which resigned during the recent financial crisis, has returned to power. A slight alteration, however, lias been mado in the pi-nuiim! of the Cabinet. Valparaiso, May 2.'!. ['resident H.Wniaeeda's navy have captured Fort Taltfil in the North.

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