CABLE SUMMARY.

Waikato Argus, Volume VI, Issue 406, 7 March 1899, Page 3

CABLE SUMMARY.

The Pope is so much impreved that he is able to write epigrams and chaff his physicians. The Paris newspaper, the Libre Parole, is inciting the French to insult Queen Victoria, when she visits Nice. Mr Kipling is now out of danger. The newspapers support Lord Salisbury in his demand that China shall respect the railway loan. M. Fallicres his been elceted President of the Seriate in succession to M. Loubet.

Austria regards the wholesale conversions to Protestantism as a disloyal manoeuvre. Steps are beiug taken to put a stop to the practice. General Toral, the Spanish commander, is Incarcerated in a military prison awaiting trial for surrendering Santiago de Cuba to the Americans. Russia has forbidden Jews to reside at Port Arthur and Ta-lien-wan Bay. During his journey to Cannes the Prince of Wales had half-an-hour's cordial interview with President Loubet. The Prince also visited the buildings in courie of erection for the 1900 Exhibition, including the colonial pavilion, aud made an inspection of a motor car. In the House of Commons, Mr Brodrick, Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, stated that Britain had remonstrated with Ameriea relative to the serious effect ef the Bill making Hawaii an American customs district.

Mr Calvert, a Vic'orian, has secured a seat in the Cambridge eight oared crew. M. Lockroy, French Minister for Marine, has ordered the construction of two submarine boats subscribed for through the newspaper, the Matin.