CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 89, 10 March 1884, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

(by electric teleoraph.— copyeight.) (SPKCIAIi TO UNITED PBKBS AaBOOTXTION.) London, March 4. In the House of Commons this afternoon, Lord Edmund Fitrmaurice, Under Secretary for the Foreign Affaire, stated, m reply to a question, that Government did not intend to order the British ttfoops m Soudan to relieve tho garrison at Kauala, a town near the border of Abyssina, which was ieported to have been threatened by hostile natives, as it was now believed that the garrison would be able to withdraw without molestation. The Bight Hon. Lord John Manners gave notice of an important amendment to the Premier's Keform Bill. The amendment declares the proposed reform of the franchise to be unacceptable unless it be accompanied by a bill for the redistribution ef seats. ; March 5. Opposition is expressed to the control of the Polynesian and New Gainea races being vested m the Colonial Governments. The report further^ recommends that the High Commissionersbip of the "Western Pacific should be disconnected from the Governorship of Fiji, and, that a High Committioner should roside m New Guinea, | March 6.

A firm of solicitors (Messrs Parkcs, of Bedford) have now become insolvent, and the partners have absconded. The liabilities are not fujly known, but they are believed to be heavy :■ It is supposed that the men implicated m the recent dynamite outrages at the Metropolitan Railway Station have made their way to France, and several police officers have gone to that country with a view to delect' them. having been made to the French police on the subject, every assistance is being offered to the English officers to effect the arrest of the offenders. , . , ] ' ' 'March 7. | At the instance of the Government, proceedings, have been commen«ed by the Attorney-General (Sir Henry James, Q.C.) against Mi- Bradlaiigh for illegally sitting and voting m the House of Commons on the 11th of February. . | Bbultn, March 6; : The German Parliament was opened to-day by the Emperor, whose speech on the occasion dwelt on the strengthening of tho hereditary friendship between' Germany and her neighbours, which His Majesty said was a security for the peace of Europe. ■