CABLE SUMMMARY.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 2988, 8 September 1891, Page 2

CABLE SUMMMARY.

(IIY KI.HCmiO TKLKdRAPII.—COI'YIUOUT,) London*, September G. In' connection with the visit of tho French fleet tbe Admiralty Btopped leave of crews oil tier Majesty's snips at Splhcad, and nearly provoked a mutiny. Tlie position became very serious, but eventually the Abuiralty yielded. A mau aimed Rhodes. employod as sorter in the Loadou Post Office, has been arrested on a charge of stealing two thousand tatters, from which he abstracted in the aggregate a sum of £20,000 as well as a large number of cheques atul post otliee orders. The military maua:avres of the Aus triau and French soldiers in Vienna and Pans respectively, show that smokeless powder will ooino into extensive use in the field. Ji 11 loons, teleijhciues, semaphores, and revolutionary tuctics,were also practised. Information has been received that during the recent riots at Tcliangsha in China, a Belgian priest and two Sisters of Mercy were murdered. The Rev. C 11 Spurqeon, who had been gradually gaining strength from his recent severe illness, has suffered another relapie. St. Petersburg, September 5. A sensation has been caused in War' saw owing to the preparations which are beiug made to concentrate a large force within a fortnight. The reason of the mobilisation is not known. A Russim Commission is preparing an elaborate commercial treaty with Scrvia, and is arranging to established a consulate in that country. Russian peasants at Maikuff refused to permit the destruction of some diseased cattle, and a riot followed. The Cossacks fired on the peasants, killing seventeen | and wounding many others. Zanzibar. Scomber 3. Major Wi.-ssnvinu, with SUOO (."ierinan troops aud 1001) native porters, is about to leave Suudaui for Lake Victoria Nyanza. He takes with him iu portable sections a small steamer to navigate the lake. Ottawa, September 5. The Hon. G-. li. Foster. Minister of Finance, in subsidising the Wes' Indian Steamship Company. Chicago, September 5. An explosion of twenty tons of dynamite, at White Pigeon, in Michigan, destroyed a factory, and killed sixteen persona.