CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume VIII, Issue 126, 5 November 1884, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

(kIEOTRIG TKLEaRAPH.— COPTjRIOtIT.) (SFKCtrAL TO UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) \v / .London, J^oy. 2, Th'e several 'Agents-GeneraV were) entertained at a banquet .'lby the Plymouth Chamber of Commerce. i ln th^ CjDp&Q of their^em^rlt's, Sfc; F. Dii)oh Bell, Sir Saiii Samuel," and Sir Arthur v Blig)j, t jpulflgised... Pljrmdutfii as a port of departure for emigrants, and W. J. F. Garrick, Agent-General for Queenß.lanc||,pj:oir. fhrsed to reconsider the claims of Plymouth m this respect. \ 'With regartlto 1 the 5 ihipping ; 6f^migrarjts for Queensland. .Sir F...D. Bell, and Sir Saul' Samuel made' special refdreuce to the immense trade that had sprung up between Plymouth and the colonies, and W. Murray Smith, jalso.aljudeji tp,the electic charact^f o|t}iei protectorate (established ov^r New Guinea. Earl Morley preslsided at the banquet. j ■ ; ..; O 'A disastrous panic took place at .the, Star; Theatre, Glasgdw^ on-%ap .tirdayf. At the perforinitidfe several imrikfOßti'i who 'had 'forinieifl^^'Bclejn employed at^the 1 Th^tre apd 3ischarged, raised a cry of fire, causing the audie r n<je i to Irise t en t^r^^ < and . iush>t4tlife^loorß. : V # ternwe Beene ensued, and after the building had been cleared it- was discovered that' 1 14 people had been killed and 11 weiJS more' of ! ie^ss' sertousljr ! injure I ' , some of them being- m a critical condition. The police succeeded i{i airresting the men , who cafjiseji, $he Mr Burgoyue's. exhibit of Aus - tralian wines at the Health Exhibitio: i v .h^gf^ee^awarded^agoldJmeditfiiJ Parleying is nbwi proceeding witli a view of effecting a compromise o] i the Franchise Bijl. • : The Dor^ef^shire regiment are a ; prsseni;* } *t DhaihamV l ijprefkred tf embark for the f ra^sy,aal at a mo ment's ndiiice: ' ■' l V *"• '■;. . ■ Some anxiety; is L FeH :.fgr j. th^ Fifehich "position in^Tonquin on account of t% Chinese blockading it. The cholera has entirely disappeared from Naples. ,•; • The fimes. considers that- the temporary defey taking place m re-i gam fo federation is neither surErising nor lamentable, vj.lt ■ also olds the opinion that the New : G^^jkioMw culcy is altbgetjjipr, too slender s basis fo^^uch a f federal movement - fln i iixe part tof ; the ■ colonies,' &n T d, furtiiermorei it'w6uld be premature of theih; to 'Conseni to support suchj ': a* «ehemfe : sefeirig : theii?%a'yj - 1 vtoycoMiiufe it WitH u^Mt^''t;^ i themselves. • JIV ! I , The Inter r Proyihcjal Congr.ess^pfi | European ; ,w^ch'." has^benen! arraiiigfed wiili-; tte; vilw of afrivingj at the^ neutralisation of^tlje^Gongoi country will hold its first meetings pfl the 15 tjj; instant. ,, :i/ Ji;j : .ff y; /,:j j