CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 55, 6 February 1885, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

(UY KLEOTRIC TRLRG:iAni.— COPYRIGHT.). (SPECIAL TO UNITED PRKSS ASSOCIATION.) London, Feb. 3. The Bankruptcy Court have granted a certifiiutM to Mr Spindier, of the firm of lliisi-li, Spindier, and Co., merchants, of Sylney, hinkrupts. The hearing" of Mr Hirseh's application for a ci-rtificito bus been adjourned. The learner Amalfi, 1792 tons, owned liy Messrs Sloinan anil Oom I>any, Hamburg, imu into and sank th<» steamer Nederland en Oranje, 1514 ions, of Amsterdam, at Aden. The New South Wales Government are, through Sir Saul Samuel, Agent(xenoral, parleying with Lml Derby m regard to the amount, of the British contribution for maintaining the protectotato over New Guinea. Sir John Conde is about to visit Fremautle m connection with the harbor works there. Italy has occupied Masxowah, a seaport town of Abyssinia, situaced on • he ooast of the Red Sea. Baron Lie iy advocates tho appointment of colonial members to the House of Lords. Sir John Henry Le Froy succeeds Baron MeLeay on the council of the Royal Colonial Institute. Lord. Derby has accepted the offer of the Wolverine for service m New Guinea, the New South Wales Government undertaking to relit her. Sir F. Dillon Bell,' Agent- General for New Zealand, has invited the other Agents-General to make an objection to Austria's proposal to establish peual colonies, so far as the Pacific is concerned. Feb. 4. The cargo of mutton ex Kaikoura, frntn New Zealand was placed m the market m good coudi ion. Gilberts mate, Cunningham, who was arrested yesterday m connection with the Tower outrage, has been identified as one of those suspected <>l being concerned m the explosion at Ktu'j's Cross station last year.