CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 268, 16 October 1883, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

Failure m Sydney.

The Second Suez Canal.

The Annexation Question.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH- -COPYRIGHT.) (SPFOIAL T6 i U i KiTBD v PRBBB AtisOblATlOlT.) X'Z'. L'l'oNDbSj'Oocober^. Messrs Alexander i 'rothersi 'of Byd.ney^hajye. become .bankrupt,, witt, lia-., tibili.tiea i amo^ntin'z; to £52^000. ;'.,* ■ t i iSir JnijußLVogel,j;i.nailetter .to,th?-, 'Times'' defendsL the action of the Governor and the Premier of Victoria m -explnding • f the . Irish informers ; • from, landing in^ Attstraiia;- ' y ' "•' "' *"' :- The Roumanian soldiers, taken pri- ; 'soners by the Austrian*, have bedn re---leased on c^rtain'cooditio^s. ' /- '*. 1 ' ; F^fnch; Prosa^are moderatibg f tl^iic^,t«mo''' 3^ t^^nk';V,.*l||^^ ;^!^^' :i K ,f : .'^^ Oprbmqdpre 1 Erskine m connection with' the treatment of French companies m tbp^New.H.eljrides,^ ; „., ,; •■. , Ti.e British Shipowners' Association r arß urging" upon the, OOf ernment tbe teliesßity of ' re-opening negotiations m reference to the; construction of a second canal through Suez. ■ Several shocks of earthquake haye been experienced at San Francisco within the last few dayb. ■x,- , 18. Tbe Parliamentary papers relating to the proposed annexaiion i of New Goinea have been, i -sued. Amonsr tbem is a despatch, from Earl Granville aßking" France what number Of con* victs it is proposed to send to tbe Pacific, aijd; what their position will be av^r arrival; a'so , regarding "jtbe failure, \ of _ the authori ties of Noumea to apply for the extrad itioo of escapees wiho landed m- Queensland. Lord Derby admits that if Jbhe number of; French convicts m the Pacific is increased, the Imperial Government will "be unable to veto tbe Influx of Odminals BiT .which the Queensland Government have proposed to put iii force m the ' cblcny. Sir Artlinr,; Palmer's ; despatch to f Lord Derby considers that tho /attempt to govern New Goinea. and the Australian colonies by federation, as proposed by the British-Oolonial Society, ! would resultin a failure. r / \ '*■ Tlie assets "- of Miesirs Alexander Br is., of Sydney, are estimated at £46,000. . Tbe American wheat crop for the entrant,^ season is estimated at 400,00.6,000 bushels. Aud the European beet-, root crop i 9 expected to ;amburi;t io^_;97o,oGo tons.