Late Cable Messages.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 260, 6 October 1883, Page 2

Late Cable Messages.

[A portion of the following was" pub ; ! lished m a Standard Extra yesterday 'afternoon.! IMPORTANT FA LURE. COM VIE *CIAL CRISIS FEARED THE POPE'S HEALTH. (special cablegl am to the standard) London, October . . The failure is announced of Messrs Puse and Sibeth, general merchants. Liabilities £250,000. 7. « ther failures are apprehended, and an uneasy feeling -prevails inmercan-- , = tile ... An election took place^ to-day m Manchester for a member for the House' of Commons m room of Hugh Birley deceased, Mr Holdswqrth,Conservative , was placeci at the head of the' poll defeating the Radical candidatefby an lmntense majority. ; Mi* Pavkhurst, the Liberal candidate who had announced his candidature at the last moment abstained from going to the poll. 7 ; The latest intelligence from Madagascar is to the effect that the Hovas are making active preparations for the removal of hostilities.. -.1 he French forces :arff stated^ to be. numerically weak and their position is somewhat precarious. . ; Melbourne, October . 5. • .The Orient . steamship John. Elder from Plymouth, August 25. Rome, "SesVrday. The report of t , the Pope's illness is unfounded. His Holiness is m good health. .;...:''/ Sydney, October. 2. The New South Wales Ministry are to' entertain members of 'Parliament at a two days picnic, which has-been-organised m a most complete manner. , A large number of* members of both Houses of the Legislature have accepted the invitation of the Government. Melbourne, October 5.. I It is now considered probable that Mr Bolam, whose services as InspectorGeneral of the Education Department, the Government have decided to dispensel with, will not be pensioned, but will be offered another post m the. Civil Service. 7AecounteH;o-hahd from the country districts of this colony show that the weather has been . generally .favorable for the crops and there are prospects of an abundant harvest this season.