CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 70, 24 February 1885, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGUAPH. — COPYRIGHT.") (SPECIAL TO UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) London, Feb. 21. The new dredger for the Melbourne Harbor Board has been launched, and will sail m April. : Sir John Coode leaves for Australia on 18th March. The stakes for the Waterloo Cup have been divided between Mr Hicks.' - Miss Glendyne and Mr Dent's Bit of Fashion. : The Maitland, a new steamer for Ade- ■ laide, has been launched. It is believed that Bussia and France have arranged to divide Asia Minor and : Syria between them. ■ ■ ■"' It is .rumored .that the Governorship; of New South Wales has been offered to the Marquis -of Lome, but Princess Louise, his wife, is unwilling that he should accept it At ; the banquet given by the London Chamber of Commerce, Sir Arthur Blyth and Sir Saul Samuel dissented from Sir Evelyn Ashley's views on colonial federation. The frozen meat ex Orient steamer Sorata is m good condition. Sir Frederick N. Broorne, Governor of Western Australia, leaves for that colony : on May 6. ; A Western Australian loan of £150,---000 will be placed on the market m May next. . The Imperial Government will give the guns necessary for the fortification of Albany. .< It is believed that France, if permitted to annex the New Hebrides, is willing to guarantee all missionary rights, and ; undertake not to send convicts to the group,' ' The Apglo-German dispute respecting New Guinea Centres on the possession of Huon Bay. . ; '. The wheat market is dull, and prices unchanged. :