Cablegrams.

Lake County Press, Issue 701, 26 March 1896, Page 2

Cablegrams.

London, March 23. Wool—At the close of the series of sales; medium merinos fetched .10 per ceut. above - January prices supflrldl* IttfiMUOS- 181 l ill crossbreds 5 per cent. The Negus of Abyssinia has officially informed President Faure of his victory over the Italians at Adowa. Ha admits that SOOO of hU own force were killed and 6000wounded. The Turkish Government has disbanded the army reserves. The Khalifa has proclaimed a holy war in the Soudan. ■ Several- Arab tribes have rolunteed for service wlth.the British expedition; Prince Albert of Monaco has renewed the concession for gaming in Monte Carlo for a period of fifty, years, but the payment for this right has been increased from £50,000 to £BO,OOO per annum. The French Government has released Mr Waller, the American Consul who was imprisoned in Madagascar. Six Russians have been arrested at Keiff on a charge of oeing Nihilists.. Lord Salisbury is negotiating with the United States for the establishment of a : permanent arbitration tribunal. The de- . tails of the scheme have not yet been arranged. General Kitchener has applied to the War Office for additional British officers for the Soudan expedition. Russia concurs with France in claiming that unanimity among the Powers is necessary before the Egyptian reserve be diverted t) pay the cost of the Soudan expedition. Germany explains that she assented to the use of the fund'iu this direction at the wish of Italy. Marquis Rudini, speaking in the Chamber of Deputies, declared that a British alliance would enhance Italay’s position in Egypt. A vote of confidence in the Ministry was carried and a proposal that the troops in Abyssinia be recalled was unanimously rejected. The Venezuelan warship Ayacuche was burned off Margarita Island and eight of the crew perished. A daring robnory has been perpetrated at Wool Gauze, W.A. where a safe containing £I2OO in cash was stolen from the tent of the office in charge of the Government waterworks. The safe was carried into the bush ’ and rifled. While three miners named Mitchell, Dunford, and Morton were putting in a ohot in the Occidental mine at Cobar, N.S.W. tho charge exploded, and Mitoh ell and Dunforti were killed. Morton was slightly injured.