CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 32, 7 January 1884, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

The lonic's Meat Cargo. The New Zealand Shipping CompanyNew Zealand Stocks* •Proposed Fortification of New Guniea. — — y ' Suggested Appointment of an Australian Primate. ; Rumoured Abdication of the Khedive. Auckland Civic Loan. Parnellite Meeting. " The Pour Per Cent. Loan. (special to united pb. R9a' association.) London, January 4. The shipments of frozen meat by the steamer lonic are m excellent condition. Her Majesty the Queen has published a sequel to her "life m the Highlands." the New Zealand Shipping Company have contracted to carry seventeen million pounds of frozen mutton this year. The New Zealand fours have declined \\ per cent. Admiral Richards advocated the establishment of six fortified forts on the New Guinea Coast; and also that the sqnadron m the Australian station should be strengthened. Earl Nelson, speaking at the Church Congress at Reading, suggested 'that Bishop Barry should be created Archbishop of Australia. The Standard state 3 that Tewfik, the present Khedive, is to ab-^ dicate m favor of Ismail Pasha. Cherif Pasha, Minister of Foreign Affairs, will resign if the Soudan is abandoned. Tenders- for the City of Auckland Municipal loan of £100,000 will be opened on the lOtli. It is feared that a rebellion is likely to break out m Spain. Mr Gowen Evans, m a letter to the Times, protest against the official report of the Parnellite meeting m Mel* bourne as attributing Undue importance to the matter. The New Zealand 4 per cent, loan of one million is announced.. -The minimum is fixed at 98 J. Tenders close on the 11th inst. The Pall Mall Gazette declares that the policy of evacuation baa totally failed, and that England Will be compelled to assume absolute authority m -Egypt for o limited period. [The following was issued as a Standabd Extra on Saturday evening.] (beupbr's telegrams.) Melbourne, January 5. It has transpired that the Earl and Countess of Roseberry will not be able to pay a visit to New Zealand. ; London January 4. News has been received that the British India Steam Navigation Company's steamship, Duke of WestmiDster, 2427 tons, from Brisbane, (Nov. 6), run ashore on the Isle of Wight, and is m a critical position. All the passengers have been landed' In safety. Tugs have gone to the vessel's assistance. . . .; .. A ' note has been addressed by Egyptian Government to the British and Minister, m which a demand is mad© for England's assistance m Soudan. The note states that unless this be accorded, the Egyptian Government will be compelled to relinquish to Turkey Ihe "eastern portion of Soudan and concentrate its troops m Egypt proper, and thus be able to dispense with the British army of occupation.