CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 138, 18 May 1883, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

DOUBLING THE SUEZ CANAL. THE CATHOLIC CLERGY AND IRISH AFFAIRS. HER MAJESTY'S HEALTH. . FENIAN THHEITS. IRISH EMIGRATION. WOMEN'S RIGHTS, BETTING OS THE DERBY. (ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. — OOPYHIGHT.) (SPKOIA.L TO UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) London, May 16; The Colonial wool sa'.es opened today with a catalogue comprising 6600 bales. A fair demand was experience 1 . There was a good attendance of Home and Foreign buyers^ The present series of auctions will close on June 29th. . .■■;.■ .. i Consuls have advanced to 102^. New Zealand securities are un* changed. ; The market, for colonial breadstuffs is quiet, but fi rm > s * a6t> quotations. ■ Australian tallow dull. M. De Lesseps' old Canal Company will probably construct a Becond canal. In consequence of the action of the Pnpe, the supporters of Archbishop Croke threaten to withhold their Peter's Pence. : -. Her Majesty has now recovered sufficiently to be able to take short walks. The dynamite faction m New York have threatened the Governor-General and Premier ot Canada. Mr G adstone has declined to accede to the Canadian Land Companies' scheme for assisting Irish emigration to that oountry. * • Upwards of a hundred members of Parliament" have waited .on Mr Gladstone, urging him tP admit qualified women to the county ;■... i The latest betting on tlie Derby is 5 ; to 1 against Beau Brummel, Galliard, ani ThePrince, 7 to 1 Goldfield,Btol; Ladislas, 16 to 1 Energy, 20 to 1 Splendor.