CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 6, 16 February 1885, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

(HY KLECTRIC TELEG«APH»— COPYRIQHT.) (SPECIAL TO UNITED, PRESS ASSOCIATION.^ London; i:Fiib. 13 Colonel J. Fletcher Owon, T tho new military commandant at Adelaide, will sail for Australia m March. Captain Huoded, submarine mining engineer, has been selected for the same employ ■ xnent m Victoria. " Mr Reginald Brett will niiinage th London branch of the Financial Com ..pany, jio. debentures -m which shall -beissued for the present. Mr For man, who is the Australian delegate at the Postal Convention, is at present m Lisbon, watching the course of events m connection with that conventiqn.j . . England will reconsider the question of the allotment of the cost of the New Guinea protectorate. The offer made by the Government of New South Wales ot military assistance for tho repression of the Soudan rebek lion has lavorably impressed the public, and the English Government are gratified at this expression of loyalty by that colony, but it is not considered likely the offer will be accepted. In regard to the settlement of the Eusso-Afghan frontier question, Bussia requests that the Hindu- Kush mountains form the frontier. . It is. possible that England will occupy Herat. The Boers m Zululand threaten to attack the towu of Natal if they are attacked. - Obituary. — Goddefroy, of the German firm of that name. The liquidator m the Oriental Bank estate has offered to settle the claims pi New South Wales by a similar comprW mise as that effected with Victoria. A point raised m the Chancery Court by Lord Chief Justice Baggallay m regard to the Orintal Bank estate has checked the payment of calls. The point will be ; argued on Monday. The National Ztitnng states that Ger- ! many will not yield the Huon Bay, New Guinea* which England recently annexed, . The Daily Telegraph is of opinion that Germany is certain to disavow the, recent seizure of land .m Samoa by Sfubel, German Consul there, as such seizure was merely the act of a subordinate. . The French fleet have left Shanghai ioi.Sbntayin Tonquin. .-'•; '.'■■:.-. The French Commissary at the Mcl- i bourne Exhibition has been charged with swindling. ' ■ An important discovery of dynamite has been made at Pudding ton. The Hon. Bobert Meade has been officially summoned to explain the proposals he made while at Berlin regardthe settlement of the. New Guinea annexation question. Colonel J. Fletcher Owen, of the Rpy--al Artillery, has been appointed commandant at Adelaide. g|Sir Frederick Leigh ton,Presidentof the Royal- Academy,, is about to purchase an Academy picture for presentation to Victoria. •• :; Mr Murray Smith is protesting against the action of Germany, m New. Guinea, on the grounds that they have no solid claim to territory m that island, and urges Lord Derby to endeavour toiinduce them to abaudou their recent annexation. The shipment of lamb, ex steamer Copt'c, from Wellington, is selling at7d per lb, and mutton at 4£ per lb. The majority of the Agents-General arc favourable to the colonies urging England not to recede from their boundaries of their annexation m New Guinea. • ' • The United Irishman publishes an offer emanating from some person or persons m Dublin, offering a reward of ten thousand pounds for the body of the Pri^e»-©f- Wales dead or alive. — .-