CABLE SUMMARY.

Waikato Argus, Volume II, Issue 104, 9 March 1897, Page 3

CABLE SUMMARY.

The Orotava has been floated off, and has arrived at Aden. One hundred and three mail bags have been sent on from Aden in a soakod condition. An examination shows that the double bottom is watertight. The vessel therefore reloads and proceeds on her voyage to Australia. Sir Saul Samuel, Agent-General for New South Wales, and Sir Donald Smith, High Commissioner for Canada, will confer with Mr Chamberlain and Sir M. Hicks-Beach upon the financial aspects of the Pacific Cable question. Six persons who were bitten by a mad dog at Newport, Monmouthshire, have been sent to the Pasteur Institute, in Paris, for treatment. Sir Julian Pauncefote, the British Ambassador, has applied to the United States Government for the extradition of Butler.

The Bank of Australasia has declared a dividend of five per cent, and carried forward £12,622. Six Colonial Premiers have accepted Mr Chamberlain's invitation, and Mr Laurier, the Canadian Premier, is consulting his colleagues on the matter.

The British Board of Trade returns for March show that imports increased £1,768,428, while exports decreased £1,839,413. The Admiralty have authorised the expenditure of £IOO,OOO at Hongkong, with the view of making the tiort a first-class naval base.

The Belgian Government have referred to arbitration the claim of Ben Tillett, the Labour leader, for compenration on account of his arrest in Antwerp on the occasion of the dock labourers' agitation last year.