LATE CABLE MESSAGES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 182, 9 July 1883, Page 2

LATE CABLE MESSAGES.

FOOTBALL CONTEST. SOUTH MELBOURNE V* SYDNEY. MELBOURNE VICTORIOUS. A GREAT LIBEL CASE. THE ENGLISH PARLIAMENT. WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE BILL THROWN OUT. AN IMPORTANT APPOINTMENT. FRENCH POLITICS. MEETING OF ORLEANIST PRINCES. PROPOSED ANNEXATION OF NEW HEBRIDES BY FRANCE. (ffY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH — COPYBIGHT.) (BETTER'S TiSLEORAMS.) Sydney/ July 7. The football contest Sooth Melbourne v. Sydney concluded bere to-day and was won by the former by 6 goals to 5. The play on both side 3 was excellent. London, July 7. An attempt to effect a compromise m m the notorious libel case, Belt v. Lowes having failed the case will shortly be re tired. In the House of Commons to-day a Bill providing tor women's suffrage was thrown out on the motion for a second reading by a majority of sixteen votes. It is annouueed that the Hon. F. E. Plankett secretary to the British Embassy at Paris, has been appointed British^minister to Japan, vice Sir Harry Sparkes transferred to Pekin.' Pakis, Jnly 7. The Orleanist Princes had an interview tonday with Comte De Chambord, but the meeting was not of a political nature. The Paris " Tymps" urges the Government to grant a charter to a French Company for acquiring a New Hebrides Islands with concessions similar to to those granted by Great Britain to North Barne< r -a'r'«» "' *">any.