CABLE NEWS.
(BY KLECTRIC TELEGRAPH. — COPYRIGHT.") (•PECIAL TO UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) ViONDON, Feb. 4. It is expected that Italy will occupy Seuakim, a town on tho Red Sea. Portugal has seized the banks of the Congo. The Chinese outworks at Kelung havo been captured by the French, with a loss of eleven killed and fifty- three wounded. The Hon. Mr Gosehen, speaking at Edinburgh, said that the union of the colonies was essential to tho Empire. Obituary — Mr James Winter, of Melbourne, from inflammation of tho lungs. Twenty-five thousand shares having been taken up m Mr Reginald Brett's Financial Company of Adelaide, it will probably be floated. England is likely to contribute to the cost of annexation m New Guinea, but has delayed making any statement as to the amount, pending the adjustment of boundaries. Tho shipment of frozen meat ex R.M. S. Kaikoura is realising 4£d per lb. Lord Shcrbrooke, whose wife died m the early part of November, has remarried.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 56, 7 February 1885, Page 2
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162CABLE NEWS. Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 56, 7 February 1885, Page 2
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