CABLE SUMMARY.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 3009, 27 October 1891, Page 3

CABLE SUMMARY.

(BY ELKOTItIC TKLSOUAPII—COI'rRIGHr). LoSDON, October 24. The Economist considers the New Zealand Government had better waive some of its rights with regard to the O.imaru Harbour Board, and assist in bearing the losa.

Sir Saul Samuel, Agent-General for New South Wales, indignantly denies the statement published by the St. James' Gazette on the 17th instant, that the loan recently issued by the colony was aheorbed by accommodation bills with local banks, and asserts that not one single ehilling was misapplied. He warns the newspapers and magazines that misrepresentation of colonial affairs is the quickest way to alienate the good feeling existing between the mother country and the colonies. October 25. Rev. Dr. Alton, congregational Minister officiating at the Uuion Chapel, Compton Terrace, Islington, who is now ?3 years of age, announces his intention of resigning. The Great Northern Railway Company has abolished second class carriages on their lines. Paris, October 24. Information has been received that the native attack on the French missions in Portuguese Guinea, Africa, is not of a serious nature, and that French claims there have now been admitted. The Russian loan is quoted at a discount of 1J per cent,, and it is now disbelieved that the loan was over subscribed, Berlin', October 24. The proceedings instituted by General Von Caprivi, German Chancellor, against Baron Bleichroder, the well-known financier, on a charger of perjury, have been abandoned. The printers throughout Germany have decided to go out on strike iu a fortnight unless their demand for nine hours a day ia conceded. Vienna, October 24. The agitation among the printers in Germany for nine hours a day is spreadto Austria. New York, October 24. The United States Government have demanded from the Chilian Government an apology and indemnity for the outrage committed in the streets of Valparaiso on the crew of the United States cruiser Baltimore. Mr J. G. Blaine, Secretary of State for the United States, has returned to New York apparently iu excellent health. Zanzieak, October 24. The East African Company is surveying a railway route to Uganda, on the shores of Victoria Nyauzi. Sir J. Fowler, the eminent enijineer, estimate the cost of constructing at two millions sterling.