GABLE SUMMARY.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3165, 6 October 1892, Page 3

GABLE SUMMARY.

(hv klkctiw: TKi,Ki;».\i'ii.— corvitifiiir). Loxtiox, October 4. Germany lias assented to the increase in the cubic tariff, and Russia is ex> pected to agree daily. It is stated that the proprietors of the Times may foci compelled to discontinue the prominence given to Queensland politics in its telegraphic columns, unless that colony agrees to the same cable rates as the others. Lord Houghton, Viceroy of Ireland, was coldly received on his arrival in Dublin. The officials of the castle made their duties an excuse for refraining from weboming him. The Mercantile Bank of India London, and China reports that it has transferred £125,000 from the reserve to profit and loss to meet losses incarrcd by frauds in Bombay. A scheme of re-construction is necessary to secure fresh capital, though the bank is still sound.

It is stated tliat 500 Gilbert Islanders havo been shipped to Mexico, where they will be sold to planters.

The Welsh Coal and Iron "Works are suspending work owing to the depression. Five mines in the Midlands are idle, and are reducing wages.

The Bankruptcy Court ordered the Rev. Mr Mule?, whose insolvency was caused by gambling, to explain his proceedings, and account for the assignment of his assets.

A passenger from Australia by the Orient, named Rogers, disappeared from the steamer lonia on his way to Perth, and it is feared fell overboard. Mr W. B. Pcrcevnl has published a reply to the article in the Investors' Review, in which he defends New Zealand from the bitter attacks made upon it. Arrived : Dnke of Buckingham. Rio Janeiro, October 4. The Otarama sailed yesterday, with her meat in good condition, Viexna, October 4. Count Kalnoky informed the Austrian Chamber of Delegations that Mr Gladstone would continue Lord Salisbury's foreign policy. Austria is increasing her military expenditure by half a million. October 5 Upwards of two hundred Austrian, j Hungarian, and German officers, including several princes and men high in command, joined in the ride from Berlin to Vienna. Many of the horses broke down on the way. Lieut. Von Mikloss, an Austrian, was first to arrive covering the distance in hours. Great interest generally was taken in the event. Behlin, October 4. The Army Bill sccures Germany 90.000 additional men annually, besides j.'i batteries of artillery. There will also be some increase of cavalry. St. Peteushurg, October 3. Six Stnndists found converting peasants in Podolia to their sect were sent to Siberia.. TATfaiERS October 4. Count D'Aubigny, French Consul in Morocco, was well received on his arrival in Fez.