CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 14, 18 December 1884, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

(BY ELBCTBIO TELEGRAPH.— COPYRIGHT.) (SPfipiAL TO UNITED PRESS ASSpOIATIOKf.) i : ' •■.' liONDON, Deo. Ijs. '■"■ The following ai;e the auiendihents , 'proposed to be introduced into theFede- f ration /Enabling Bill^r-In claus? 15, which providea for the legislative authority of the ; Federal : jDouncil, the words .'^utliority over, all. flejc Majesty's possessions m Australasia and over all British : ships sailing Between theiii ''have been struckout as likely to conflict; with th.c authority of. the Colonial Legislative Chambers and ..the Admiralty. ;Auy action under subsections ayb, and c of the same clause referring respectivdly to "The relation's of Australiasia with the islands of the Pacific, .the prevention of the influx of criminals; and fisheries m Australasian waters > beyond the terri-' tprial Jine," will require. to have Imperial sanction. Clause,-. 26^ providing, for the apportionment among the colonies of the necessany expenditure . incurred by the Council has be'eti recast, and a new clause ba&been inserted giving power to any colony to retire from the arrangement at its option. v '; ■ ■'• <v - ' The Hoi; John Douglas, C.M.GL, exPremier of. Queehßland, and Mr S\ mon Fraser, of "Victoria, are passengers to" Australia by the s.s. Rome. ; ;•..-.; |j The parleying which has been j p^o- ' ceedirig for -some time between Earl Granville and the Marquis Tseng, Chinese Ambassador, m connection with; tlie l France-Chinese question, has beenj suspended. - • v i 4 ■' >/;:■•*■■; -\J ■ Dec. 17;: i Arrived, at Pymouthj -P. & 0. steamship Carthay,' f rota Meibdufne, Oct.; 23. | ; " ' ' ' „ . ■■ ! - } \\