CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 129, 8 May 1883, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

THE DEFEAT OF THE OATHS BILL.

BURNING OF FREEMASONS' HALL.

THE ANNEXATION OF NEW GUINEA.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

' THE StTKZ CANAL.

SHIPWRECK.

(by electeic telegraph. — copyright. ) (special to united press association. ) London, May 5. The division on the Affirmation m Lieu of O«ths Bill was wildly applauded ' by the Opposition, many members ' standing on their seats and hurrahing. The Government appear to have J^een m the hands the of Irish party m the House, who not only voted against them, but jeered openly at them . The Freemasons' Hall m London has been burned down, arid all the valuable insignia and paintings destroyed. The Hon. Evelyn Ashley read m the i Honse of Commons telngrams from the Government of New South Wales, Vbtoria, and South Australia, urging 1 the Imp-rial Government to sanction i the annexation of New Guinea. Mr J. O'Kelly, M.P., asked had the Government of Holland renounced its claims upon New Guinea, and the ' question was not answered. ! Messrs Howard, Smith and Co.'s new steamer Burmah has been launched, A dynamite factory has been discovered at Constrandt. The Due .D'Aumale is seriously ill. i It has been now determined that, if Mr Bradlarjgh again, attempts m any way to enter the House of Commons, he shall be expelled the precincts. It is probable he will resign his seat. The Affirmation Bill was not made m any way a Ministerial question, and the de--1 feat ot the Government upon it is not 1 therefore regarded as a question ot coni fldence. The majority against it re- ; suited from tH«» knowledge that even it the Bill passed m the Lower House, the Lords would reject it. The question will now be deferred till after the next general election. Lord Northbiook has stated that the Admiralty haa already adopted some ol the suggestions made by the recent I Commission on Colonial defences, and he and Lord Carnarvon eulogised the public spirit displayed by the colonies m providing as they had done for their own defence. Baron de L?sseps asserts that it ■ would be impossible to forma second canol across the Isthmus o l ' Suez. A vessel named the Groffler has been burned at Vancouver's Island, and fifty Chinese lost thoir Hyps m her.