CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 14, 14 December 1883, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

Scleniiflu Exploration of tf ew^uinea. A- Australian Crldketier'&A,- j London Branch of a Colonial Bank- _ :-- ' „ - ;- '-'*H*>. (BY ELKCTaiC TELEGRAPH. — COPYRIGHT.) (SPECIAL TO UNITED PBSaSAB^>fiUrAXI<}N.) London, December 11. 1 A. The "Royal ;J approved' of Mr Fowelf's proposed ex-' « ..I^2&°n. 9i J.SX. ...Guin&». J^wjßJje,, - of a purely scientific character, and will . istart m February. A naturalist and a_geoLogist have .been ...engaged. Au attempt will be made to penetrate into „' the centre of the country from the 1 north or north-east coast, but is isjnot intended to attempt further explori* i tions on the Fly River, or to go over the. -|ff^^d/\£_rpady^t^^ei*Be({';Jbyi Qapf\ ' tain Armit. A programme ot thirty matches has ' ■) been arranged for the ''Australian" *' Eleven. It includes / matches with Oxford apd Cambridge^TJnvversities j two witH the Gentlemen of England ; two, with the North pf England j three with All ''England,' at Manchester, Lords, and the Oval respectively^ two > with the Players of England ; one with the South of England; and thirteen!'" against, couuaty eleyeins. TKe iobunty. j clubs of England have unanimously requested the Marylebone Committee to in_rUrucfc umpires m all county matches to strictly euforce law 10, which forbids throwing or jerking m bowling. Mr Gleydell has secured premises in' Lombard-street for the Lopdon branch ' of the Commercial Bank of So ith Australia^ and, wills commence : business}