CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 244, 11 September 1884, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

('•LSnTRI ! TiSLEGRvPH. — COPYRIGHT.) (SPKCIAL TO ONITKD PIIKSS ASSOCIATION.) London, Sept. 6. H.M.S. Opal, twelve guns, will relieve H.M.S. Espiegal, at present on the Australian station. A Canadian offers Beach «£2QO ; as. expenses if he will row Hanlan at Montreal for i? 1000 a side. An inquiry has been held into the alleged murder committed by the crew of the yacht Mignonette, and the captain admits having cut the lad's ( Peckers ) jugular vein, and so caused his death. Bail has been refused, although much sympathy is felt for him. The British flag has been hoisted at several points at Calabar, on the west coast of Africa.. A case of cholera has occurred at Rome. It is reported that Sir Julius Yogel is likely to succeed Sir F. D. Bell as Agent-General for New Zealand. The Australian cricketers have each netted nearly =£700 as a result I of their cricketing tour. The London season having closed, and most of the fashionable members ofsociety being out of town, the banquet which was intended to have been given to them has been abandoned, and a farewell champagne dinner will be given instead at the Oval on Saturday next. The Cape Parliament, m July last, resolved that it was expedient to annex the territory that has just been annexed by Germany m the vicinity of Walvisch Bay. News from China states that Foochow and Mia River forts have all been repaired, and tint the arsenal was uninjured, and only two men-of-war destroyed. •