CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 81, 9 March 1885, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

(BY KLECIHUC TKLBQUAPII. — COPYkIGHT.) (SPECtAL TO UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) London, March 6. Mr Howard "Vincont will read a paper oti::" Australia "at the Roydl Colonial Institute. . i The shipment of meat from Melbourne by the Orient steamer Austral is realising s^d per pound. ; The revelations contained m the Blue Book on Nuw Guinea recently issued, shewing the original advances made by Piince=Bißmarck to England with regard 'to that island^ are causing an alienation of French sympathy witJ» Germany. The Bank ot Australasia has declared a dividend for (tie past half-year at the j rate of 14 per cent, per annum, and carried forward and placed to reserve L 26,000. . (RfiUTEft'S TELEGRAMS.) ■"'-•"•• -■ Loxdon, March 7. r The Daily JSTeios to-day states that official despatches received from Petersburg strengthen 1 the hopes .of; an amicable,' settlement being arrived at between England aud Russiaon the Afghan Frontier Question..' . ■ .;- .- It is announced that Lord Carrington has been appointed to succeed Lord ..Augustus Loltus. as, Governor of New South' Wains. ..'-' . 'l ' ■■'"■'■ .":• I The Bank of England by advertisement invites holders of New Zealand Government, 5 per cent, consols to convert them, into 4 per cent stock at LlO7- --•: ih'tiie'tf'o^ of Lords to-day Earl Granville stated he regretted that any annoyance had been caused to Prince Bistnark by the publication of aportionof . thin: contents of an English blue book on the pacific Question, and he diverted upon the importance of the maintenance of friendship between England' and Germany; "• .'"....'; CJaieo, March 7. Sir G. Wolseley has issued an address to tho'troops under !iis commaud saying he hopes to lead an army into Khartoum before the end of the year, and that m the meantime preparations ihusfc continue to be made for an advauce m the autumn. • « :