CABLE SUMMARY.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3201, 31 December 1892, Page 2

CABLE SUMMARY.

[IIV KLKUTKIC TKr.KOIUPn.—COI'VIUGKTJ. London, December 29. The meetings of the unemployed at Tower Kill have closed. The rise in Consols is mainly due to the French transferring money to England. Paris, December 28. The French Socialists have appointed a Committee to shadow cer*» tain people on tho day of the re assembling of Parliament, and arc also issuing an appeal to the Armv. Tt is believed that the explosion of the bomb at the police barracks was caused by a dismissed policeman. Berlin, December 29. Nine thousand miners have struck in Prussia. St. Peteusbuhg, December 20. The Russian Government refuse to refer to arbitration the action of llotimania in firing upon the Russian steamer Olga, the vessel which attempted to evade the quarantine regulations of Roumania in passing up the Danube. The Roumanian Govern-* ment are indignant at the action of Russia. Calcutta, December 28. The English inn n. a newspaper published here, declares that the Ameer of Afghanistan is encroaching on the town of Osman, and is extending his influence. It" also states that the Ameer has no intention of meeting Lord Roberts, Commander-in-Chief in India, at Jellalabad. New York, December 29. Five hundred passengers a,re on board the missing steamer fimbria, but tho agents are confident that sho will turn up sefely. A dynamite bomb was thrown agaiust the Milwaukee -street railway station, wrecking it and the plant within, the damage being estimated at half-a-million dollars. A fierce fight is taking place over ?old claims in Ran Ju.m, a county in the South-west part of Colorado. Eleven fatalities have been recorded. Wariitnoton, December 28. It is proposed that an extra session should be held to deal with tho immigration question. Buenos Ayres, December 28. The Rebels in the Corrientes province have on two occasions defeated the Governor's local troops,