CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 264, 4 October 1884, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

( LK^TRI;.' TKLEGUUPH. — COPYRIGHT.) (SPECIAL TO UNITIiD PKEBS ASSOOr ATH»N.) London, Oct. 2. The last Victorian six per cent, loan has been repaid. The financiers predict that the New South Wales loan will be a pronounced success. The Marquis of Salisbury, m his speech on the Franchise, stated that the Lords would not yield to the demands made, as such demands were arrogant and dictatorial. * The Government are at present discussing the advisability of despatching an expedition against the Boers, m consequence of their recent aggressive action m Stellalaricl. Admiral Courbet has been instructed to seize the harbor of Kelung and the coal mines m its neighborhood as a guarantee for the war indemnity. A compromise will probably be effected m regard to the recent suspension of the law of liquidation by ;the Egyptian Government. Intelligence is to hand from jhe West Coast of Africa that Spece (sic) an Englishman, the lessee of the Guano islands m Bay Angra Pequina has been warned off them by the representatives of Luderwitz and Co., Bremen, who claim possession of the islands and the district of Angra Pequina.