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Waikato Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 2862, 15 November 1890, Page 2

CABLE SUMMARY.

(BY KLKOIHIC TELEGRAPH.—COPYBiGHT.) Looton, November 13. Tjik Berlin correspondent of th« Times advises consumptive patients to repair to Berlin forthwith, as a tremendous influx of sick people is expected. Dr Koch remains silent, and refuses to predict whether his efforts will be successful or not.

In addition to the sum of £14,000 already cabled to Australia, Mr G. Skipton, secretary of the Trades and Labour Council, had intended to send a further sum of £300, and by votes of Firemen, Seamen, and Dockers' Unions hoped, witliin the next six months, to have remitted £00,000. It is reported that Delaney, the Invincible who has j ust been released from gaol, will shortly sail for Australia. Delaney was one of those sentenced to death for complicity in the Phoenix Park murders, but whose sentence was commuted to penal servitude.

The Standard is indignant at the New Zealand Government concealing the bankruptcy of the New Plymouth Harbour Board for a whole year, and considers it ought at least to accept the obligation of the debt of £00,000.

The London Association of Shipowners yiid Brokers, representing a million tons, have joined the shipping federation. They include the following shipping companiesP. andO., Orient, Currie and Co., and Shaw, Savill, and Albion Co. The federation now numbers six and a-half million tons.

Sixteen tenants and their families have been evicted from the Olphert estate. The ovictors were protected by a strong force of military. The British authorities have declined to grant an extradition warrant against Castion, who was arrested for the murder of Councillor Rossi during the revolt in Ticinco.

The directors of tho New Zealand Estates Company have now granted special settlements.

The rate of exchange will be raised one half per cent on Saturday. The Countess of Jersey is still in high fever, but she maintains her strength.

In order to shorten tho debate on the address in reply it is the intention that the address shat shall take the form of merely returning thanks for the Queen's message. New York, November 12. The panic continues in New York, and prices have undergone a further fall. Washington, November 12. Neither President Harrison nor Secretary Blaine attended Mr Dillon's reception at Washington.