CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 44, 19 January 1884, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

Rumored Resignation of the Marquis of Normanby.

Sir George Grey's Pacific Annexation Act,

Establishment of Stations Along the New Guinea Coast.

Sir Julius Yogel on Colonial Stocks

The Standard on the Victorian Loan

(BY KLEOTRIO TELEGRA.PH— COPYRIGHT. ) (^PEC^L TO UNITED PRRSS ASSOCIATION.) London, January 17. 1 ■-■ Obittrary— The E»u-1 of Bantry, aged 82. Hia son and heir, Viscount Beve-' haven, v m the colonies. There are 15,000 Christians and 40,000 Egyptians m the Soudan. The Suez Canal is blocked by a sunken vessel. The traffic through the Suez Canal ,has beeu resumed. It is generally believed iv political circles that if a Fedoration Bill was brought forward it would be certain to pass. . At the annual meeting of the Australian M ortgage and Agency Company, Limited, held yeslerday^the report was adoptedi i Owing to Earl Grranville's parleying, it is rumored that France will not send any more convicts to New Caledonia, and' possibly not to any of the other Pacific Islands. It is reported that the Marquis of Norman by has resigned the Governorship of Victoria. It i.i believed that the Government will, recognise the principle of Sir •George G-rey's Pacific Annexation Act. A. r i umor : ha,s gained currency to the (effect that England intends to immediately^ establish stations along the coast of $ew Guinea. - Sic Julius \fogel has written a letter to. the Time?, strongly urging the passing of ari-Acti to legalise the investment of trust' funds m colonial stocks. ; Tile Standard says that the wholesale r financial houses consider the minimurio, fixed for the Victorian loan is too high, aud thai., unless the public subscribe liberally, the banks will have to fall back on a syndicate.