CABLE SUMMARY.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3052, 6 February 1892, Page 3

CABLE SUMMARY.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEQRArH.— COI'YRIGHT). London, February 4. Mil J. R. Cox, M.P., for Clare, who recently returned from a tour through the Australasian colonics, declared in the course of a speech in Dublin, not more than fifty people in those colonies sided with the Parnellites. Five hundred and seven deaths occurred in London last week from influenza. The death rate is 41 per 1000. Two thousand more engineers have struck. The origin of the strike was a quarrel between the engineers and plumbers relative to the division of work. Five thousand engineers and men of the allied trades at Newcastle have protested against the lock-out, but the employers remain unmoved. H.M.S. Victoria has been lightened to the extent of IuOO tons, and the efforts of the tugs succeeded in moving her half a length. It is hoped she will be floated off to-day. The Agents-General will jointly apply to the War Office for military advice for the Australian colonies. The lightening of H.M.S. Victoria is still proceeding, and the weather remains favourable. St. Petersburg, Februarys. The Mayor of Moscow, who has been making a tour through the famine districts, reports that the accounts of the distress are exaggerated. Washington, February 3. Many of the democratic members on the Committee of Ways and Means are in favour of large reductions in the duties on woollen goods than the Bill introduced by the Chairman provides. Some support a reduction of as much a forty per cent. Lisbon, February 4. Both Legislative Chambers have refused to discuss a proposition that the colonies should be sold. A labour crisis has occurred in Lisbon, and bakers' shops have been pillaged by the mob.