ARRIVAL OF THE 'FRISCO MAIL

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 90, 11 March 1884, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE 'FRISCO MAIL

{ (by telegraph.) (united press association.) Wellington, This Day. Large meetings which have been held at G-uildhall and Piccadily, and which were presided over by the Lord Mayor and Lord Randolph Churchill, pass«d resolutions condeinnimr the Egyptian Policy of tW Gove^hiimt, and: asking, for o f p rtvl j a . nient._ v _ ,^_ A large meeting at'^ShlffieidPannounc«;d the policy of the Government m P^gypt as sacrificing national honor and prestige. On the news of Baker's defeat the French Ambassador offered the assistance of the French troops to rel^sjpjift'6om,aina 16 le&Ve"sel#lcmfenc of 'Sou'dan tcr a Oorff&enfclroFfche Powers. ,r f - r Cr -a James'O'KeUy," Egyptian 1 'cfcr&iffindent of the London, Daily News, who was supposed to have beertilled, has turned rip at Adsaiot. "r!; • ;. - says, ibis: de-eided" ihat the Parliament b ( o asked to [grant £2,000,000 for the..additionat defence .of the Clyde* Humber,, Mersey, , and : Tyne rivers, tHe feistoi, Chimney,' Ports Aden,' Singapore, Hong %i*a. Point De Galle, and 'Capeto\vn, Jti ami the Islands .of St. Helena,, and Ascension, all being of vital necesMtVfbr th'e Tßritishficet. [ ;: ; ; n<: ' ; ;' s «• -*-;/I u:&;;;Vl 'Harfingt'bn, '^ebr^tary of y?i\rj -his ol>taided sanction to his 'scheme fdr increasing the effective army. The recruiting system "will be^modified.&njl the standard height made shorter. China has given A.London firm a large < brderf6*torpeaos'. ~ IU .. General Booth r ,chief pf^heSal^. tion Array, intends to make a the United States m March. The Pope has sent a comer stone and marble altar slab for the Chapel to be erected at Casirkibeen, m the m emory of Daniel O'Conaell A convention of farmers at CajElow denounced Loid an<f iThe Orangemen resoled ljbuting on the*laiiid of fatniersindJiflfefcessary to prevent it.. -ZThe farmers have declared they /will .poison-their grounds. Strong efforts arg being made m ffvor of General Ske^mftn^candidature for the presidency. } 1V "' i: 3 " 1 :l ■*&