CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 16, 17 December 1883, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

— n.»«-- -ii.... . General News. Lori Derby oil French Annexation o( Western Africa* Australian Annexation. New South Walss . New Loanr The Haytian insurrection(BY ELECTRIC TKLSORAPH — COPVRTOHT.) (SPECIAL TO UNITED PR S3 ASSOCIATION.) London, December 13. All the shares placed m the English market m the company to purchase Messrs Mason Bros.' business m Sydney, have been subscribed. At the Colonial Institute, Mr Murray Smith will road a paper on Victoria. It is reported that H.M.S. Raleigh will replace H.M.S. Nelson on the Australian station. Lord Derby, replying to a deputation with reference to the French annexation policy m Western Africa, said the question was seriously occupying the attention of the Cabinet. He was unable to assert ihat France should not settle the unoccupied or unclaimed territory on that coast. The success of El Mahdi's troops is greatly exciting the uibesjof Arabia. Mr Morley, M.P., speaking at New castle, «aid that the attitude of the Australian oolonics with reference to annexation of the islands m the Pacific involved a most delicate, difficult, and momentous question, and he contended that whether their roquet was refused or partly granted an appeal would be made to England for federation. The New South Wales four per cent. Inscribed Stock Loan of three millious is announced to be placed m the market to-morrow. The minimum is fixed at par, and tenders will be opened on the 20th instant. • In regard to the New South Wales loan imperative orders were sent Home that it should be placed m the market immediately, as financiers consider it better that it should not cla«h with the floating of the Victorian loan m January. A naval engagement lias taken place between the vessels belonging to the Haytian Government and steamers belonging to the insurgeu is, Severe losses 'ami 'considerable damage were suffered by both sides.