CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 119, 15 April 1884, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

(by ei/ectric telegraph—copyright) (reuter's telegrams.) London, April 10, The Australian Mortgage Land and Finance Company have decided to double their capital. French Occupation of Canton. Le Temps advocates the French "occupation of Canton. Tltf Recidiviste Bill. The Daily Telegraph, vhile protesting ag;iinst England's attempted dictation to France m the matter of the. Recidiviste Bill, advises the establishment of an effective guard round New Caledonia to prevent the escape of convicts. The Standard is sceptical .. as to the efficiency of such.a proceeding. '■'■ -'■■ The French Military System. ; ' The French Chambers have approved of a universal system of three years' military service, and, have adjourned until May 20. Hong Kong, ApriUl.■■'■ Intelligence has been received here that a serious crisis has taken place at Pekin. Prince Rung, First Secretary of State, and four colleagues, Privy Councillors, have been publicly degraded by the Empress for their 'dilatoriness iv connection with the Tonquin I Question. ■. • LrNDON, April 11.' Telegrams to hand from Cuba announce that a formidable rising has occurred thereunder Agners,'a" well known Filibuster. The Cuban authorities have asked the Spanish Goyeifnment to despatch a strong force of troops with a view to quell the rebellion which threatens to assume serious proportions. " :•.••■•' Obituary—Chas. fteade, D.C.L., the well known novelist and. dramatist, aged 70. ; : . London, April 12. The cargo of frozen mutton comprising about 8000 carcases, on board the steamship Bombay, from Wellington, arrived m good condition. The quantity placed iii; the market to-day realised, sixpence pev; pound. , : „. The Dynamite (Conspirators. .\ The police have effected the arrest | at Birkenhead of a man named Daley, who has been identified as having been concerned m the recent dynamite outrages. Five infernal machines were found m the prisoner's possession. The police alvo arrested at Birmingham a man named Egan, who is known to have been an accomplice of Daleys. A man named Fitzgerald has been j arrested m Tipperary for murder, and being associated with Daley and Egan m the dynamite conspiracy.. Daley is suspected of complicity m the London explosions. Letters found iv Egan's house show that Tynan is on his ■way to Paris to direct' the conspiracy. \ !