CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 259, 29 September 1884, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

(klsp.tßl.: T^I.EGIIvPH.-- KJOIfYRIOHT.) (SPEOUL TO CWITKO PftKSS A9BOOtATI»»!r.> London, Sept. 25. The frozen meat per s.B. Orient is realising 5d per lb, and the market is improving. Sir Saul Samuel, Agent-General for New South Wales, has informed I Lord Derby that the Government of New South Wales have np desire to hurry him m his decision regarding the Pacific. Mr Murray Smith, Agent-Gene-ra! for Victoria, is endeavoring to arrange with the various AgentsGeneral to act unitedly m requesting Lord Derby and Mr Gladstone to prevent foreign Powers from, fuifcher acquiring any ..territory m the Pacific or south of the Equator, as such is both premature and annoying to the colonies. ...... The recent .announcements of fuither large colonial loans being placed m the market have fed a disturbing influence on ,the money market. \ The retaking of evidences-11l the case of Merry v. the Queen bourne) has heen adjourned ' until October 8. An English capitalist is willing tb purchase Mr Charles Fisher's Northern Territory property for tne sam of .£IOO,OOO m cash, and i? 50,000 m shares. Sept. 26. M. de Vielle, the eminent French jrrist, has. been despatched to Cayenne on behalf of the French Government, to inquire into and report upon -the , suitableness of that pkee for the deportation of Reeidiviste,s. \-V : ■';-".• .;' ; v- '. - The Times m an article urges the reduction of hereditary peerages m favor of the creation of more life peers. Information to hand from Capetown states that Usibepu declines to recognise the present location of the Zulu reserve. They French vintage is very abundant this year.