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Waikato Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3152, 6 September 1892, Page 2

CABLE SUMMARY.

(11V ELECTRIC TKLKGRAPH.—COI'iHIGIIT.) Loxdojt, September 3. The Colonial Office lias informed Sir Saul Samuel, A gent-General for Now Soutli Wales, that the statement that thousands of poor Russim .Tews were preparing to lerive for the Australasian colonies is not true. Consequently the Imperial Government do not contemplate taking any action in the matter. Serious riots have taken place in tho salt district, Cheshire, owing to the unionists refusing to work with free men. Tho military had to assist the police in restoring order. Ireland is beginning to show agrarian unrest, and the evicted tenants are again agitating fov reinstatement. The suspension of the London and General Bank (Limited), a small concern, has pulled down the Liberator Permanent Building arid Investment Society of 20. Budge Row. The Kent and Surrey Building Society, at Woolwich, in which the arsenal workers are the chief investors, has failed owing to the secretary having abscouded with £40,000 of the Society's funds September i. Captain T.ugard reports that in April Emiu Pasha was marching from Mozambique to the Congo. Rains aud gales have severely damaged the hops in Kent, aud the yield is only expected to be about the same as last year. It is denied that the Queen wrote to Lord Roseberry asking him to accept office. The Liberator Building Society announces that depositors will be paid, in rotation according to the priority of application. Dr. P. B. Yanderbyl, with Messrs Montrose, Clochet, Walter Barrett and W, T. Pratt, will constitute the new firm of Yanderbyl and Pratt to carry on Messrs Redfern, Alexander and Go.'s business. Coxs'f antinoit.e, September 4. The scaffolding attached to a building in course of erection in Pera, ou the north side of the Golden Horn, on the summit of the hill above Gnlatea andTophane, collapsed, and 15 workmen were killed. The architect has been arrested. New York, September -1. The New York Herald alleges that the seizure by the British of Gilbert and Corn ivallis Islands is an intrigue on the part of the British and Germans to expel American traders from the South ocas. Buexos Ayhes, September 1. The arrest of eleven officers has prevented a military rising iu the Argentine. , Paris, September 4. The action of France in constructing a. fortified harbour tit Biserta, in Tunia, at a cost of £600,000 is causing some excitement in Italv and Austria. Berlin, September i. A German warship lias been ordered to prevent the natives under the dominion of the German New Guinea Company engaging themselves as labourers for other parts of the wold.