LATE CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 22, 24 December 1884, Page 2

LATE CABLE NEWS.

(Per s.s. Wairarapa at the Bluff), (.aob specials. (united peess association.) London, Dec. 3. Bradlaugh had applied for a new trial m the action brought against him by the Government for illegally voting m the House of Commons, he not having taken the oaths. The application was refused, but execution of the penalties claimed was stayed pending an appeal to a higher Court. Prince Albert Victor, eldest son of the Princo of Wales, will come of ago next year, but it has been decided not to ask Parliament for any special allowance for bin) until his marriage,

Dec. 11. An important discovery has been made m Franco for the destruction of phylloxera. It consists of a preparation of arsenic. Dec. 14. Commenting on tho present position of the Now Guinea question, the Pall Mall Gazette insists on the necessity for the Gladstone Cabinet adopting a more decided policy m reference to New Guinea. The Telegraph states that three tori pedoes, which have been constructed m England to the order of the Chinese GoTernment, have been shipped for AustraI lian ports, with the object of resbipping | them to Shanghai. | Dec. 15. Lord Eeay, who was offered the Governship of Victoria, on the retirement of the Marquis of Normanby, is succeeded by James Ferguson, Bart., as Governor of Bombay. The Australian Federal Council Enabling Bill, which has been amended by the Imperial Government, will be dispatched to the Premiers of the various 1 Australian colonies on Friday next. Amendments made empower any colony to retire from the council and enlarge the powers originally proposed relative to the v relations of Australia with the islands of the Pacific and prevention of the influx of criminals. The proposal that this council shall have legislative authority over fisheries m the Australasian waters beyond the territorial limits, is, however, to remain inoperative unless specially sanctioned by the Imperial Government. A suggested amendment is that some provision shall be made dealing with the finaiidjiii questions which | affect the whole colonies.