CABLE SUMMARY.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 2979, 18 August 1891, Page 3

CABLE SUMMARY.

» (dy electric tki.kgraph.—copyright.) Londox, August 15. Owitfo to the Marquis of Salisbury's costs having been paid, the Court has annulled Mr O'Brien's bankruptcy. The Governing Body of the Imperial Institute have decided to allow tho Australian Colonies a reasonable additional space for the display of grain and other products. Drs Thompson (Sydney) and Boweu (Melbourne), representatives to the Hygenic Congress, were invited to lunch to Osborne to-day, and had an audience with the Queen. Dalziel's Agency states that England settles 0000 crofters, all naval reservists, at Vancouver as a nucleus of a forco in case of emergency in the Pacific. Tho Rev. C. H. Spurgeon is weaker, and refuses to partake of food. The Cunard Company has entered into a contract, for the construction of a steamer with a capacity of twelve thousand tens and capable of steaming twsnty-two knots per hour. BI'.KLIN, AIIRUSt 16. The sales of the Parisian journals Le Figaro and Le Matin have been prohibited in Strnsburtc, owing to tho reports published by them on the. state of the health of the Emperor of Germany. Tho Emperor proposes attending the German and Austrian maureuvres. ViKNNA, August 15. In the house occupied by the Schneiders who were arrested on a charge of decoying and murdering servant girls, were found six trunks coutainiug clothes identified as belonging to missing domestics. Sixteen girls have been lost during the past month. Constantinople, August 15. The Turkish Government has decided to despatch 700 soldiers to Crete to restore order. Calcutta, August 15. Senipata and the Tongal General were publicly hanged to-day. Washington, August 15. Mr J. G. Blaine, Secretary of State, is improving in health. The Republican movement to nominate him for the Prt« sidency is increasing. Bubnos AYT4KS, August 15. The Catholics in the Argentine Republic propose to exhibit a '' Holy Coat " to-morrow, notwithstanding that His Holiness the Pope lias declared that the "Holy Coat" at Treves is the only genuine one. Nuw Yokk, August 15. Tho deck of a pleasure bargo in New York harbour, upon which SOO excursionists were dining, gave way, owing to the support being rotten. Eight women, four children, and two men were killed, and 30 others injured. All sealing vessels has been notified to leave the Behring Sea. Owing to a blunder on the part of the nrohitect it has been found necessary to relay the foundations of the Chicago Fair at an estimated cost of a quarter of a million of dollars.