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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 125, 22 April 1884, Page 2

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''-'■ ' !&. MryJtfmes/of Victoijui; hns^tentetj a system' of under^t ound telegraph wifes. ■ -v : ■ •' -i ■■:■■.'} Th,e Spectator says tha;t,;M. JFerry does iiot understand , the eagerness of .ihs Australian colonies on $hV JR,eqidi : yijjte.question or the nature of tjhe danger • it mxplves.;,. ,j^ j. ... „-/.'_ ._ , .^, i: ;j".', It is understood tliat. the Egypt^n, ar^ay will not be touched by the Sntisli pr9posal9,^:hipU. indicate a limited p^o-; tedtorate. .. • . ..;..,,. . „:y The French Press shoVs an increasing hostility, to the establish ment,.qf a j Bijitish Protectorate, a^direjojLces'pvev Sir Vernon Harcourt's disavowal of any indention of annexation. " "" " jTLe Premier of Mapito^a has .declared that Stale will separate fi'pmltbe D9miniyii unleaifc^s- more fairly treated^ by; tyg ESdexaiGoveinnieat^' " „ (' > r Aivt -Alasftraliaii wheat "cargo, ApVilA slmtojent^has been sold at 40s;- and another one at 6d less. "" "" ' ; C-A : .. :■■ April m ; iSiv^Henry Loch sails for Victoria bai 28th May.,. .. : ; \ , YV ;Mr Gladstone has recovered his health. Osman I)igneh'has rallied 200.0 men, and now threatens Souakim when the Brii«h retire. •'■"■■ - ! ,: iThe : Observer sayfe-'that' the of, the Australian colonies Oft the; Rfecidiviste !^uestion : is natural and legitimate, and if denounces the folly; of France m persistiag iii the .matter. • '■.;.->•.:• m; • .. ; -fn ;, i lt is c believe<t that Sir E. Baring will, at^iid the European 'Gohference ivhioh : yis] to'oe held- iii London, to regulate: the* fi nahjdtis of : ' Egyp t. ■ '■" '■'■'■■'■ '■■* '• ; n ; It is reportted that 800 refugees from; Shendy have" beeii thivenon a sandbank i m the Nile and' mass^fcredv'' ~ -.'■'> -^ v> ; OreiierairGordon wifl jjittbably 1 'Ot'do^ Stuart, and 'PoWer to : escape' acrdss tfbe equator. . . ' v j A^r^lflDbifllwraitih? >preia6tttedt3*i prizes at the of "Engineering at the Crystal -paia6e. - : ' ni--.ii3L\