LATE CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 202, 23 July 1884, Page 2

LATE CABLE NEWS.

: -Age Specials;. '(Per 8.8. ißotomahana at the Bluff,) (UNITED BRESS ASSOCIATION.) ■ . .Caibo, July 8. NeWs has l>een , received here to day from i Colonel jGrenfelli comlnanding the tijoops yvhich jwefC: despatched on the 31s* o£ May. to ; Wady Haifa and Korosko, . reporting: that, ;they have arvire'd^thq^e: places, and are now occupied m .forj>ifyin« ' those positions against 'the , ,ppssi!ble advance of the JViahdi m Upper Egypt. , .. ■ ■ s<f .;:.•.. London, Jttly 9. ,• The Agents-General for the Aus-. tralian colonies. con.sider the reply of Ashley Fowler to be valueless. The reply siraplyineans,^ that tho Australian colonies should pay. the eipensea of the Hi'j;h ComniisHionec and his staff, instead of.:, England, as at present. The Agpnts-General now understand that m appointing a High Ooinmis.sioner, Dord DerViy distinctly repudiates all idea of i establishing a protectorate cpuutenaucing the annexation of New;', ;Guinea and the adiacent Pacific Islands;.. . The Marquis, of Normanby, at a banquet, given to him last night, expressed an opinion strong! y opposed to the annexation of New Gainea^ Piobate. has : been graute«l m the. will ofithe late Duke of Albany, the amount of. hjuj estate being: sworn at £46,000. V . : , ... '..,.,'.:! •■ /■■ '•■ ■■■ .-i.i •- -.July. 11. . ..The jGrrnrid Duke of Hesse, husband of the late Princess Alice, has obtained a divorce irom his second wife, Madame Kolemine, who had been previously divorced from the foririer ..secretary, of the Russian legation' at Darmstardt. ■•■<-- July 13. The Ageut-Geneifal proposes to withdrtiw.;. the offer, of the paycnenb of a suKsiay , o f £15,000 guaranteed by the Australian ''ColonieH^ unless a ." British protectorate is established oversew Guinea. The question is now under discussion by the British ; Cabine^. ; .. , , Jniy is. The {Tirries or this morning support* the recommendation that G-reut ; Biitain; should „e^hftftge,-wjith' Frahce/ the: N%n(l -•■liiauia for New 1 6'aledania, believing ,that ( tjie adaption of this course is the "only method of preventing the recurrence of the 1 irrit:i--tiotV which over the recidiyiste. question. /The Times also' condemns the.: apathy, which Lord Derby h^s : shown throughout the matter., Foochow, July 10. The second; cr^Op of this season!s tea is estiin^ted at under 90,000 cheats. The quality ; ojc the pre-sfint ae^son's i . second crop of. tea is . generally very; L inferior! ...