CABLE FLASHES.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1266, 4 June 1896, Page 37

CABLE FLASHES.

At tho annual Congress in England of delegates from tho co-operative societies, Lord Winchilsea presiding, the report showed that tho societies have a capital of .£15,001,000. Tho trado done in the year amounted to £50,000,000, on which the profit was .£5,000,000. The Propaganda has forbidden the French Monastic (Jrders to found schools in tho Hast. The French Government proposes to impose a lax. on incomes derived from foreign rents. Tho Mahometan rehels havo been successful in the province of Kausu. the most northwesterly province of China, and are advancing wostward. In a tornado which swept over the State ot Towa, five small towns were virtually destroyed, and 40 persons killed. . Mr Barney Barnato believes that it is tlie

intention of the Transvaal authorities to release the members of the Reform Committee and lias decided net to sell his mines, but will proceed with working them. There is but little excitement among the English residents in Cairo over the outbreak of cholera. . Tho evidence taken at the trial ol Major Lothairc for the murder of Stokes, the British Congo trader, lias been submitted to the Belgian Parliament. It .shows that Captain Dhanis justified the hanging, and that Dr Michaux was also a party to it. In the Belgian Chamber of Deputies members stated that 0000 horses imported from England annually were used for tinned meat. M. Do Brnyn, Minister for Agriculture and Industries,'said that in future he would insist on the proper branding of the article. Mrs Looming has recovered in Melbourne £250 damages against the Union Steam Ship Company for tho loss of her son, who was precipitated down the hold of the steamer Mararoa through a block falling on him while ho was engaged in loading coal. A committee of the Italian Chamber of Deputies has unanimously recommended that General Uaratieri, ex-Commandant of the Italian forces in Abyssinia, should bo courtmartialled for his conduct of the campaign against the Shoans. The French Incomo Tax Bill exempts income derived from rents held abroad. The construction of tho railway from Wady Haifa to Akasheh has been completed as far as the Ambigol Wells. , The Cape Parliament has, without a division, carried a resolution to the effect that it trusts the Imperial Government will take effectivo measures with regard to Rhodesia, making raids impossible. A motion in favour of cancelling the charter of the company was 'Tlie Czar is deeply distressed at the terrible disaster which happened at the peasants' feast hold outside Moscow in honour of his coronation, and has assigned a sum of 1000 roubles to each of the bereaved families. A detachment of 1000 Indian troops has arrived at Suakin, and 000 have started for Tokar, which is some 15 miles to the south of Suakin, and a few miles from the coast. The Greek Government has ordered the despatch of three warships to Crete. It takes about three seconds for a message to go from one end of the Atlantic cable to the other.