CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 134, 6 May 1884, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGttAPH. — COPYRIGHT.) (special to united pbess association. 1 London, May 2. The prospectus of the proposed company to take up land m the Novthern Territory of Australia, projected by Mr Mclntvre of South Australia, -will be issued on Monday. The capital will be £ 120,000, and the first issue of shaves will cover two-thirds of the capital. An excellent provisional board ot directors has been appointed. 1 May 3. Messrs Dalgetty's business has been registered as a company with a capital of four millions. Four robbers have been lynched m Kansas four murdering bankers. ! It is supposed that bombs found on Daloy were intended to be thrown either m the House of Commons or at Lord Randolph Churchill's meeting m Birmingham. A bottle of nitro-glycerine j has been discovered concealed m Egau's i garden. It is suggesteJ that Sir Henry Loch as Governor of Victoria, should be specially authorised to give the Royal assent to any colonial legislation intended to secure the exclusion of recidivistes. Lord Derby is expected to make an important speech on this question ou Monday. The John Elder's meat has arrived m excel lem condition. (by electric telegraph.— copveight.) (reuter's telegrams.) Paris, May 2. Li-Feng-Pao,at present Chinese envoy at Berlin, has been appointed to replace the Marquis Tseng as ambassador to France, and will at once open parleying with the French Government, with a view to a pacific solution of the Tonquin difficulty. Melbouene, May 3, Mr Staart, Premier of New South Wales, i eplying to Mr Service's circular ou the Recidiviste question, 'suggests that each colony should .-address the Secretary of State for the Colonies, pointing out the danger likely to result from the transport of French criminals to the Pacific.