CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 281, 24 October 1884, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

(Kl.KnTur:: Trtl.EailA PH. — COPYRIOnT.) .(SPECIAL TO UNITKJ) PKEBS ASSOGWkt'IOKi)" " " i-(, London, Oct. 2?. < The Helicon, which sailed from Hull on March 31st ffo' Syftt&y^ and is consequently '2os days oul, !<ihas been posted at LloydVas overdue. . s,v. . Vi?r .'c O(->ri The Chiiiese" are blocking, bf '" submarine mines, the" Ri^er' T»K'iav Mn'- which is situated thfe' tdwn of Ningpo. . . r It is announced^ that the Right Hon, J. 1 G. Dodson^has, been raised to the Peerage. The Right Hon. G. O- Trevelyan, Chief Secfefary 1 ' for Ireland, will, succeed Mr Dodson as Chancellor of the jDuchy of Lancaster, and with a seat m the GabU; 1 net. Mr H. Campbell' Bannerman, -^i Secretary to the 'Admiralityy has v I been appointed to succeed Mr Trevelyan 7 as Chief Secretary for Ireland. v - • ' The Homeward niails iHd Stiie* [and Brindisi, dat^d ' 'Melbourne^ September 9i were delivered ; hiere to-day. ; " '

' , New Yobk, Qcfc; 221 - A most disastrous fire has occur- . red at Carthage, a town m thia : State, on the. Black Biver. Nume- ; . rous houses r and factories *and seve-' v ral churches haye been totally des- t; > troyed, and great losjs ; of property has resulted. ••' ? ■

1 ' ' ' .HdNGKoafe, Ocfc. 22. 7 . All the T : forts m the Island of 7 Formpsa'are now block^Hey by >he French fleet. • :'' ;>