CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 224, 25 August 1883, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

THE PRESS AT WAR. AN IMPUTATION REFUTED. MISSIONARY SHAW IN HIS DEFENCE. ALLEGED CONSPIRACY. THE TO NQUIN CAMPAIGN. EGYPTIAN AFFAIRS. THE LATE ARCHBISHOP. THE INQUEST. THE FUNERAL. THE FRANCO-CHINESE DIFFICULTY. STRAINED RELATIONS. THE CAPTURE OF HAIPHONG. THE TRIAL OF/CDDNNELL. (BY ELHOTKIG TKLE6tRAPH."CIOPYBJ«HT.) (SPECIAL TO UNITED PR RSS ASSOCIATION) ... Pasii, August 28. The Frenoh Press r,o-day irarmly repel the charge made by the, Nord Deutscne Gazette, that France was the sole disturber of the European^peace. ' - London, August 23. . la the House of Commons to»day, Mr Gladstone stated, m reply to s question, that the French Gorernment had declared it would do its utmost to terminate the Shaw incident, and had. promised that Mr Shaw should be allowed every facility for defending himself before the court martial. A doctor named Connolly and, hiß brother were arrested to-day by the police of Limerick charged with conspiracy to murder. Farther news from Tonquin states that 2uoo of tne Hanoi, garrison advancing on Sintag, assaulted the Animite position, and were thrice repulsed. The centre column was partly successful, but the right and left columns, after protracted fighting, retreated. The French loss was two officers and fifteen men killed, and seventy wounded., .The enemy's loss was light. Ibe country is innundated, and the French are depressed; < } . T!> The Egyptian Council 'states that 1 the officials who will be entrusted with the initiating of the laws of reform m Egypt will shortly he appointed. ...,.; a The article published m the the Nord . Deutsche Lietung,on, French aggression, . has had a depressing effect > upon /the Bourse., ..■■.' v . , :? •■■•' .'••'■ ;-u ■ The American share market is re- 1 covering. : ;- .-■■■ ■■■ -;- ■ :vi -- \ t /^ At tne inquesfon the body of Archbishop Vaughan^ -a ' verdict of death, from natural causes was returned, , The juneral of Archbishop Vau»han will take place on Thursday afternoon *t Biundell. ' A There are increasing indications of an outbreak ot war between FraDceand China. Mr Gladstone's refusal t«» publish the- Tamative despatches oh account of their incompleteness, and notwithstanding his assurances m references to the protection of Mr Shaw, are irritating the public mind. In the capture of the town of Haiphong by the French, 150 cannon and a large quantity of treasures Ml into their hands. r ". ' O'Donnell, the murderer of Carey, is to be tried m England, and he will leave the Cape on SeptemDer 4. ■