LATEST NEWS BY CABLE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 259, 29 September 1884, Page 3

LATEST NEWS BY CABLE.

(Special to the Standard.J [by* cable.] '" .'. * . London, Sept. 26. The" Australian cricketing team declined ,»n invitation to play a match at Bombay on their way home. 1 Sir Henry Forbes is maturing plans for exploring the south-eastern portion of New Guinea. Sir Gavin Duffy, writing to the Poll Mall Gazette, urges that a dissolution is the simplest remedy for jlne .present '^political deadlock m England. The two gunboats- constructed for the Queensland Government have made a trial trip at which, they averaged 10^ knots per hour, the guns were also tested with excellent results. ; , The death of Mistress Challis is announced, she leaves a large legacy to. the Sydney University. ".. ■» The. meat jby the Coptic has ar- • rived m splendid condition. The shipment; of Queensland beef by the ship fiute of Westminster is dani- . aged and the greater portion of it -Js The John Elders cargo is averaging si.d (by electric telegraph.— cop yrioh't.) (bbutxk's telegrams.) ■ London, August 27.! A rumor of has been -received "at Scotland Yard leading to the belief that the Irish dynamite -party have •; fcriried further plots for the destruction of public buHdings m England, and that emissaries who are now, on Xihe continent will cross the channel m prder to carry out 1 the conspiracy. Increased precautions have been taken at Dover and great vigilance is beinff_exercised both by the Gustpm» officers and police to prevent the^importation of dangerous explosives.- . . . ; Mr Gladstone lias returned from Scotland to bis seat at Hawarden Castle. ./■ •■* Paris, Sept. 27. The French Chamber is summoned to meet on October 14 for despatch of business. ,