CABLE SUMMARY.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3164, 4 October 1892, Page 3

CABLE SUMMARY.

♦ (liV KI.KCIHIC TKl.KiillAl'll.—rOl"Yi;i(i!lT). r,o.\H(i\, October I. Tm-; cotlon masters of Lancashire intend to enforce ;i. reduction of o per cent, in employees' w.isyes. Serious difliculfy is likely (o result. ill- Siiiii'lfonl I'leniins-, one of tl'o directors of the Canadian Pacific Cable Company, has written to Sir Jolin Lubbock strongly that tlie homo and colonial Governments should no longer delay establishing a eal)le service aeross tlie Pacific. J)r. Usher. <.f JUolboriruc, win elaius to have discovered a cure for the crave oC alcohol, was to-day examined before the committee, ov in(jiiiry info treatment for habitual drunkards, when he made some import ant recommeiillations. Tlie Times the division in the Xew South Wiilps Leirisl.-dive Asspinlily considei-s that ~\lr T'eid. leiidei- of th" Ojipositirm, lias better reason to be pleased at the morn] victory. It states if Sir (}. ]!.. 'Oibbs succeeds in conducting the af/airs of the colony, with a. i?ot very trurt■worthy m-ijon'ly, he; will prove himself to I).' a tactician of no ordinary sfamji. Ocbberl'. The riii.n n.inlc of Australia ha.i declarer! a .lividen.] rf 12.', per cent.. ii.ud carried forward £!),()()()". Commissioners have been apjK.intcd to ildvisd (he ("lOVerillllellf, as (o (tie expediem-y ...t modifviiia , the Indian Currenev Act. L'.rd' I rerschel is president. ' l _Tlic Dake o|' Corinauu-hf, snrained his knef. whil" ni, Jtalmoral. but is rccoverinir. "i'oKOHAMA. October L l . Tho Press is indignant at tile expulsion of .TaiLMie-,. labourers from Amcrii"!, and uryvs rr-)irisals, !ii:i;i,i\, October '2. .Schultz and Vie;.( ( >, banl.eis, of P.erJin. have him aiTesfed on a charge of fraud. Tlwir liabilities are stated to bo a million an<l a-half sterling-. C'\l.'-tTTA. October L , . Tho Ameer iia' d. fi ::b'd the Hiizaras and cajif'ired "Wziiirhan. St. Pi:Ti:i;s!;r!u;, Octolxr 2. The "JJussian -.'".ieiifific expedii-ion d"sj)atehe.l to Tlibet, is e:-:i)'ectel to be absent two years. Scn.\. October'.'. The O.iveniment Ii::s agreed to permit thr- Pnssian schools in P,our<re< (o l ) 0 i-e.-open"d. I'Alils. Octob-r 1. i ?\ews has 1,,,.,, ivivived llvit (he J''reiieh tninboats have sin-llnd Tohnn.-'. near the Coast of Palioiney. The natives lost .i. larjje lmiaber of lives, and tho ]ilace is said fo have been literally strewn with the dead Dαhomeynns. October 2. The Diiir-iineyans. after losin? several hundreds in the rece;it battle, kept the tield under fire, in orlerto collect (l.e J, ..„!. „,„[ , ll( . 5i;,,,,,;,!,.,, was so jvrrai (Int (he total loss was increased to 1.'1.000. WASIIIMiTO.V. Sejiieiiibor DO. Carncyio's annour]ilatiiiu: worl;< liavf been clos-d. and probably (lie whole of the works ,>t TTomesfea'd will be shut. Tt is staled that the mills had to he dosed bee:iMse non-uiiion hands wore taken on and proved fo h" incapable of doinp; the \ VO rk ro.juired.