CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 46, 23 January 1884, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

Gold for Australia. The Times on New Guinea. The Soudan Difficulty. . The New Spanish Ministry. Unemployed m Paris* ' ?- Commercial and Monetary r El Mahdi's Policy. The Suez Canal Company. (BT ELECTRIC TBLEGRAPH—COFYRIGIIT.) (SPECIAL TO UNITED PHKSS ASSOCIATION.) London, January 20. The Orient •«teamer John Elder took one hundred thousand sovereigns, and the Mirftipore three hundred thousand sovereigns for Australia. The Times says that England Bhould undertake the maritime defence of New Guinea if the colonies will become jointly responsible for the' cost of all operations on land. The Pall Mall G-azetto says that England having m reality invested Gordon Pasha with supremo authority m the Soudan, it is necessary that M. Baring should be given equal authority m matters of finance. Senor Cost el lo has formed a new Tory Ministry m Spain, the policy of which is unfavorable to the English treaty. Marshal GJ-usada, a personal frieud of tho King's, is Minister of War. It is reported that there are one hundred and fifty thousand unemployed m the city of Paris, and violence is threatened. Australian wheat cargoes have been sold at 435, but the present value to London direct is 41s 6d to 425. The heavy gold exports to Australia is stiffening the money market, and the secresy attempted to be observed about the matter hast produced unfavorable comment. It is inferred that' the Australian banks have run short ot gold owing to the operations of the riew loan agencies. The Union Bank of Australia Limited and the Australian Mortgage Company have each shipped 200,000 sovereigns, and the total withdrawal, of gold for Australia has reached the most unexpected amount of one million. ; The Economist considers that the colony m Victoria is -in a' favorable position, and that, whatever may be the faults of the administration, the colony cannot be considered at all overwhelmed with debt. Cairo, January 20. Communication by telegraph with Khartoum wus>reslored to-day, but no intelligence of importance has been received here from -Soudan. Vienna, Jan. 20. M. De Gierst, Russian Foreign Minter, is now on a visit to this city. His Excellency received a cordial welcome on arrival, &nd fetes have been organised m his honour. London; January 21. .-...] t is announced that Baron StcLoavy, the New Guinea explorer, wilT return to New Guinea at an early date. Bishop Moran, of Ossory, Ireland, tihe newly-appointed Archbishop of Sydney, has been summoned by the Pope to Rome, where he will be appointed Cardinal prior to his departure for Sydney. ...William Holmes, th.c Liberal M.P, ; for Paisley, which he has represented since Jauuary, 1874, has resigned his seat m the House of Commons. It is announced that H.M.S. Careysfoot, one of the vessels m the Mediterranean squadron, has been ordered' to Suez, whence she will convey Colonel Gordon (Goi don Pasha) to So'uakim, m the Red Sea, on his special mission 1 to the Soudan. A brother-in-law of El Mahdi, the False Prophet has been captured by the Egyptian troops. He states that Mahdi will oppose the £urjkisb,,. Government if they take. supreme control over the Sotxlan; but that; both he and his fol? r lowers are determined . to expel alt foreigners from Central Africa. , The death is announced of Chundersen, the well-k'nowh^Buddhisfc schola and propagandist, .-. • ; Earl Granville, Secretary of State for the Foreign Bepanment, has approved the agreement entered into between the British shipowners Lesseps, as representing the Suez Canal Company.