CABLE SUMMARY.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3058, 20 February 1892, Page 3

CABLE SUMMARY.

(BY ELECTRIC TKI.K.CKAI'II. —COPYRIC.IIT. London, February IS. A heavy fall of enow has been experienced throughout Northern Europe, aud in many places the luilwrty trallic is blocked. The Hon. J. Chamberlain, speaking in Devonshire, advised the country to insist that the Irish party should not be allowed to block the prosecution of reforms in England. Miss Hopkins, the girl whose committal to the Spinning House by the Cambridge University authorities caused coosiderable criticism, was reported to have been sentenced to a week's imprisonment for drunkenness in London, but it turned out to be another girl of the same name. The opinion in financial circles in London is that it would be unjust to covertly unload the Victorian Treasury bills in England, and that such action would have the effect of further depressing the msrket. Berlin, February 17. Owing to the machinations of the grain operator* in Berlin it is expected a '• corner " in Russian rye will be effected in April, and prices are advancing by leaps. Owing to the failure of the crops in East Prussia a famine in that district is imminent. St. PETKR.sr.URG, February 17. Pamphlets have been seized in Poland directed against the Government and the landlords. Some excitement Was been caused. A manifesto is being issued by the malcontents in Poland urging a revolution.' Calcutta, February 18. The Indian Government will shortly apply for a loan of £5,000,000.