CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 144, 26 May 1883, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

f TB^oM^mo' OF THE SIR W. MACPARRENi THE SUEZ CANAL. THE VICTORIAN , GUNBOATS. - — -ARftESTB IN-- MOSCOW. r . LORD DU^FEIiIN'S SUCCESSOR IN EGYPT. ! '" -'.- THE ANNEXATION OF NEW ; : j^ui GUINEA. X V ; (BT ELECTRIC tBLBOfILAPH.rr-CoiYBWJrfT.), (SPECIAL TO UiaTED PBESS ASSOCIATION;} * London, May 2i. /Six ranks ,bf Soldiers and Citizen ' guards lined the route of the imperial procession m Moscow, and the Czar rode calmly aloniß. r Dr Macfarren has accepted' the prdferred honor of .knighthood m connection with the opening of the Royal Academy of Music. . ' . ' :'"'■ : ; : ' ; ■ ; '■' * Baron de Leesep's ' Suez Canal Company request the English Government to support the project for obtaining the land required foV^ the construction of a second canal parallel witrT tbJe ' present canal, promising m return a reduction of charges and increased powers of control to i ngland. The first of the n,ew gunboats building for the Victorian Goyernuient will JbaJaunohed at Newcastle on the 6th of June. • : ■• _i Fifty BUBpecfeU"jjeWSnß~*liave been arrested m Moscow. • ■ ■7 :' -■ . The Times states thnt ~Mr-Baring reallj succeeds Lord DufFerin : itt ; l'gy i pt., v - -The Right ;Hon. W. Forster, m addressing ;vhe Aborigines Ptotftctiori Society, insisted that if New Guinea was annexed, all hosti ity ;. towards-the and s"lavery- under disguise, should be, strictly forbiddent '