Late Cable Messages.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 283, 2 November 1883, Page 2

Late Cable Messages.

|.. The. New Primate of Fydney. Proposed Intercolonial Exhibition. The War m Tonquin. Annexation of New Guinea* English Policy with France ■. The Supposed Fenian Outrages. The Wellington and Manawatu Railway. (BY ELKCTBIC TELEGRAPH (special to united press association) London, October 30. Sir Wm. Morgan, of the firm of Morgan and Nephew, is seriously ill at Brighton. 1 he fiev. Dr Alfred Barry, who was recently appointed to the Metropolitan See of Sydney, will be oonseorated at "Westminister Abbey immediately after 1 hristmas. ff c will probably arrive m Sydney towards the end of March next. The success of the proposed exhibition m the Crystal Palace, • under the direction of Mr Levey, Executive ecretary at the Amsterdam Exhibition of New south "Wales, is assured. ! Ihe projected exhibition at South Kensington appears to be lifeless. The. Figaro states that the Governor of Yunnan, a province adjacent to Toncjuin, with J 4,000 troops, has been directed to occupy Calbany, m Tonquin. Ootober 81. feir Charles Dilke, speaking at Glasgow, stated that the colonists of Australia could make their minds easy as regards foreign occupation of !NVw Guinea, and that he was confident that Australia would be able to succeed m its efforts to prevent the exportation of convicts to the colonies without having to annex the whole of Polynesia. Tlje Marquis of JJartington m an address at Buxton, admitted that if the French were at war with China, it Would require all England's forbearance and friendship to prevent serious complications arising with France. It is now known that six carriages were shattered by the dynamite explosion m the underground railway, and that a number of passengers were badly burnt. A rebettiblt which has taken place among ttie'nitives or. South Khartum, Eastern Africa, has been isolated through the efforts of the Soudan army.

The directors of the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company invite tenders for a loan amounting to £360,000 at par. The tend rs are announced to close on November 9.