CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 47, 28 January 1885, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

(hy Kr.Enraic 'riai:ai:APii.— copyright.") (SPKCIAIi TO UNITED PKBSS ASSOCIATION.) London, Jan. 24. Sir William MoAtthur has entertain- i ed thu Hon. J. B. Tburatou, Colonial Seeietary of Fiji, at a banquet. Lord Derby cjnsiders that any .future iiotion raken by England m regard to annexation will much depend upon the liberality of tbe colonies m the matter. ..,: Sir Saul Samel is urging the necessity for a complete jurisdiction being established oviir New Guinea. ; Mr Thonias A. : Welton, liquidator ip. rhe Oriental Bauk ; estate, offei-s to sjettle the Victorian claims by paying 20s m the £ without interest. | Prince Bismarck is opposing the sjtriugency of the annexation rules as fjroposed by JEugland. The 'matter is to be o'ro'ught before the forthcoming conference on Paci tic. ad'airs.'' , ; The Observer states that England 5 absents to the French, proposals re-- ; carding the . Egyptian finances,' with' tjhc eiceptioti of that relating to the ibmediute appoiutnieut of a Financial Inquiry Committee. i The ( .Government of the Transvaal liavu concluded a commercial treaty v[ith Greraiany. \ Germany has annexed Norfch.Sierra Leone, on the West Coast of Africa. I Sir Saul.;Sahite<jlr Agent-GeueraL fpr New South Wales, will preside at the February dinner- of the Empire ;CJlub. : The Annexation by Italy of Belul Bay, m the Red Sea, is said to he