CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 246, 13 September 1884, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

(••"I, KPT RIO TKLEGRVPH. — COPYRIGfIT.) (SPKCTAL TO UNITED VUKSB ASSOC.ATION.) London, Sept, IQ. Denis Duggan, the rescuer of a number of Irish political prisoners who escaped from Freemantle, Western Australia, by the American whaler Catalpa, on April I7th, 1875, has died m Dublin. The Orient steamers have ceased calling at Naples, m consequence of the cholera epidemic at present raging m that city. . 1 1 "is expected that the answer from the British Association, m reference to the invitation to visit Melbourne, will be posted m America, where they held their recent sitting. An impression prevails m finanancial circles that the New South Wales loan was issued at Bs. per cent. Holders of three-quarters of a million of New Zealand 5 per cent, bonds having refused to agree with the recent scheme for the conversion of the bonds, will .be paid off m January. j The Western Australian Timber Company have purchased m Liverpool the vessel Ironmaster for L 30,000. This company have also | offered De Lesseps a supply of Jarrah piles for use m the Panama Canal works. September 11 1 One thousand persons have been arrested at Warsaw as suspected. H.M.S. Nelson will be retained on the Australian Station as the flagship of Admiral Tryon. The troopships Taraar will, m October, convey a fresh crew to Sydney to relieve the present crew of the Nelson. The frozen meat by the steamer Ruapehu has arrived m excellent condition. At the Forestry Exhibition, held m Edingburgh, Australia was-award-ed one silver medal and a diploma. New Zealand was also awarded one bronze medal and three honorable mentions. Five hundred deaths irom cholera occurred at Naples on Tuesday. Many other deaths are reported as occurring m various parts of Italy from the malady. The Earl of Dufferin, British Ambassador m Turkey, who succeeds the Marquis of Ripon as Go-vernor-Geueral of India, will leave Stamboul on Tuesday next.