CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 65, 18 February 1885, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

(RY ELECTRIC TBLEOWAPH. — COPYUIGHT.) (SPKCUL" TO UNITED PRKSS ASSOCJATIOy.) j JL.O DO*, Feb. 15. Bishop Vaughan, Roman Catholic, of Sallbid, has denounced the recent out- r rages' by dynamiters as of. the .most- dia-4 bolical character. Eai-1 Spencer, while out hunting, was thrown from his horse, and broke "his' collar-bone. One ot the two largest passenger steamers ordered by Messrs Huddart. atiiT barker for their' Victorian line of . steamers has been successfully launched jat Ne.wcastlGron-Tyhe. She has been named the Surrumbete (? Burrumbeot). j: Dr Taylor, the .edito of Scienca ' Gossip, will sail for Australia on Bth April by a Messagcries Maritmies steamer. The March wheat shipment is quoted at ; 3Gs.- ■ : : • , . 1 ! Mr Wright, barrister, of Fiji; has been' appointed Commissioner to inquire into the Geriiian claims m the Fij£ : ; The inquiry will commence this week. Hon. J."B. Thurston will watch English interests, and Mr Sahl German interests. The cases of. Sahl Sedemann and Pfeffer Pflumger are the. only cases that will be considered. After the conclusion of the inquiry, Mr Thurston and Dr Krauel, German Consul-General- at. Sydney, jyili , 'draw up a report on the Anglo-Gorman interests m Fiji. The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel m Foreign Parts has voted .£IOOO towards the establishment of the bishopric at Fiji. The Recidiviste Bill was passed ; by. the French Senate by an immense! majority- i A plot to destroy Nottingham Castle by dynamite has been discovered. '■■■■■ . It is reported m Berlin, that England has yielded to Germany regarding the disputed .boundaries, -in- New Guinea. . „ . , . -.The World Exhibition at New : Orleans is pronounced a complete failure.,, 'Germany is taking steps to raise a* colonial army. ■ : ( . >,' £: