CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 287, 1 November 1884, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

(fLBOTRIO TELEGRAPH.—^COPYRIGHT.) -, ■> (SPECIAL TO UNITED PKEBB A88O0IAtW.) . ;! Londqn, Oct. 30. 1 Five, new .peers have, been creaJt./iedk'i *' ■• - ■"••■'-■•- : } ; ' :■ r ■-'•''. I Smallpox is raging at Merawi, a .; • ' <town a, short distance below- the fourth cataract of the Nile. : s'^iagland' intends to punish the mwejerers of Bethel (sic),; and to 1 - expel all marauders from Bechuanaland. . ( ■■■"■ The' Homeward mails, ex steamship QußCp, from Melbourne (Sep- ''"'' tember " X&) 9 were delivered, iqa rK ßt^idißi r: i»-day. r . . .- . ; Pet Merchant Shipping and Unr>,4fl?*riters' Association :— Arriyed '—Ship Soukar, from Lytteltojn m(Jh^9): ' m> ; In the House'Ot Commons to-day, : th> Bon Evelyn Ashley, Under*J Secretary for the Colonies, m reply ; ?>%' a* question,' stated that General Smyth, commander of the British forces m South Afrida, has been m Btructedto refuse to recognise the claim" of the T Transvaal Government protect Montsioa, the paramount x * 'cniefpf Bechuanaland. the territory over whiph Btitish authority is about to bewstoredi ' • ;'■. VVn 'tt k hiw ) l>een decided that tjie bills . Taccepted' from the Oriental Bank at Mauritius the' stoppage of —JpaymeMt by the bank was known there will be paid m full. ' / The Bank of England to-day '„ raised the rates of discount to 4 per cent. ''':>'■.':'':'.: ' '~ v . */.-.- : : OAißb. J Oct. 30. ; Tiifelst/Battallion of the Roykl , Irish Regiment, Ist Battalion of the J.i^%^%est Kent Regiments arid ; Ist Battalion of Gordbn ; Highlanders, will ascend the Nile next *.J week for Khartoum.