CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 100, 24 March 1884, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

The Victo*ian Torpedo Bdats* : (by rlectkic ?tklbgraeh. — copyright.) ' (sVBCfATi .TJ.VNITED- PIIKSS ASSOCIATION.) ; - T.ondo.vj 'Kfai'ch aO. r J 1 he two Victorian torjtedd boats have been tried cm the .iMisuvvos, ..and rtveriVged a speed of over -17 knots. . ; ■' MavcS 21. : THe ortlmation of the ttev ? .. ; S)^ney J Anton has been changed to St.' Paul's. The shipment of frozen meat by the steamer Orient has arrived m splendid condition. < , K \ A vac/incy having occurred m the repieseutUticin of Ciimbridgshire m tl> e House of Commons owing to tbe s res,ignation of the senior (Li.bei'til) member Sir Sydney Brand, ex-s'p>aker,elevatod to the peerage, the eleetip.tt v topk place' yesterday and resulted m the return pf ( a conaervAtire candidate (Thorphlli .byalargeni^orityioyevthis liberal opponent., An election also took, place yes'crday for tho^ representation ! of Hun^iqgdorishire,' when .Sir . Robert - Peel" was returned \n the 1 liberal in*' tere*t.'^ r ..: ,;,:' . ,■ ... „..; *■>'■„,• ,-.•.• <■'■>< • itjias, transpired that Erjtn.ee has \ clainied an. indemnity from Chinia foni the expenses m the Tonquin Campaign^ * the 'amount being- tixed at a minimum ;of six million pounds v ;