CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 83, 11 March 1885, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

(RY BLECTRIO TELISQItAPH.— COPyitfOHT.) (SPKCIaL TO UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION:) London, March 8. Lord Carington, the new Governor of New South' Wales, is unlikely to leave - England until the end of the year. His has been introduced to Sir Saul Samuel, Agent-General for the colony, by Lord Derby. ...... The French Press ridicule Earl Granville's apology to Prince Bismarck, ' m reference to the statements contained m the recent Blue Book. Lord Northbrooke states that the Admiralty are anxious to promote the formation of an Australian navy. Mr Murray Smith, Agent-General for Victoria, will address a meeting at Cambridge on Saturday on the question of federation. Professor '?. B. Seeley, of Christ College, will preside. i By a colliery explosion m Austria 120 lives have be'en lost, v ri . , Fully one million of money is available; to meet the first dividend made by the old Orient Bank Company. There is considerable excitement m Shanghai m consequence of the French fleet overhauling English and American steamers. . ' """"^~™"™ ■ ■ ■ . > (REUTERS' TELEGRAMS.! >. , , ; .-.,.,. London; March 10j, t Earl Gran ville has published a letter announcing that the friction with ' Germany has ended m an amicable understanding haying been arrived at with Count Herbert Bismarck m regard to the English Blue Book on Pacific affairs. Count Bismarck has returned to Berlin..! In the House of, Commons to-day Lord Edmund FitzMaurice,- P^olitical Secretary of the Foreign Office, m reply to a questi6n, stated that, the territory of North Borneo was not tinder Britighv rule. n The Pall Mall Gazette states it has been agreed that the eighth parallel shall be the boundary between the English and German annexations of ; New Guinea.- . ' In the House of Commons to-day. ■ Lord : Hartington confirmed - the' announcement that the proposed increase m the British Army would consist, of 15,000' men: "■' ' ' ~ ,