CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 94, 24 March 1885, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

SPECIAL TO UNITED PUf.SS ASSOCIATION. London, "March '^Sir-- I ..£ conn«c^k)n wijih.tlje-^ttii^xntipDj-ofc '^few Zealand Government have offered to bear the cost of gpyeraing tfeat Js.-,. land. '■ •"* 1 : /Th;e Cuzco'a meat has arrived m excellent condition. _ 1 " - The wheat-market is drrlV.'tittd" prices ! are unchanged. Forward shipments have realised 3^S> ; ; v ; .-. ; ~;>: !; | : 'I'he" Wool market is firm, and prices obtained at y the ogening, series have been maihthiined.' ' 48f,000 bales have been catalogued, of which 3,500 wers withdrawn. \ The St. Petersburg Press are triumj--phant. at ., the agreement ? recently ;enj- , twedv infe bet Weeu ' M. : De- Staal,- the Imperial Ambassador m London, and (Mr .Gladstone, r; that no further ladyance 1 of troops should taKe place on' either -side.-"- r S lV \ '■'■'■/' :l/}"^ '."' ' : "':"''"' ■'-■' &ew York,,'^arch 21. ArriyedTTElinipr. y emon from ; ; Auqklano"(3rd'])'ecemb'er). t . . ._■ N . . ACtfS S,EBOU|jS. v% C\ '■; ' (united pi^ess association. * London, March 10. The latest intelligence from Afghanisfaiiiis to -the'- effect that Itt^ssikn^trdops are menacing the towns on the frontier! A collision between the Eussian an 4 Afghan troops is regarded as imminent. , ; .; „ proposed International ■•; Qonfer4 enc'e on telegraphic matters will probably be postponed until 1886. j March 13. ; „ : ' Jn ;the..lJ<iuse; of Commons! .last' faightj 'Mr Gladstone^jn aflswerjng a question said that the/ Government would on -I deavor to secure a fair share of the" north-east portion of New Guinea. Both; Mr Qoi^st,, . member fqp'^hatbam, and Mr i L Torrens;' member 'for' "Pinsbury, 1 criticisea the cessions made of New Guinea byiAfr Gl4dst(«io." 'ln reply to further inquiry, Mr Evelyn AshleyJ Political Secretary of the Colonial Office,' said he was not aware that the Government portion ot New Guinea had been! annexed by, ' Germanyj'r as had, been 1 staged. ■' >;■> . ■:-.y^..->-- ■ ''"t'y. i Reply to & question lit the House ofi last. night, ..Mr Gladstonej stated t hat "the position of affair's between; Great Britain and Russia renbained iir\1 -' Thß^zar'-has. repeated his', pacific assurance, but there was reason; t^ belieye *th"s,t tlje adyano> of ;*Russiani : troops stflljcctntinujd..- .2. I f ■'.. i L ) r "L March 15. The Official Liquidator of tlie Oriental Bank announces -that those accepting) the compromise ;whicb.T has been already! announced 5 befdr^i'Jfjity^ wli-»receive aj second dividend m September, and the probable 1 fenlttinder' will ultimately : |be' ■^ai«=irifWljV-'--' ;; !: : '>''^-f 4i. ; The Czar has written -td^ theuEmperor of Gernlahyijdfenyiug; thfttjppafce is en-! dangered by the. present complications, 1 and, expressing a confident hope, that a •difficulty 'will be.averjieci: ", l '\ ' il ' . ■ ''In commercial circles 'in ! England "great disquietude stiU-ieiistsrand shipi : pers- >tO' 'Australia. <are insuring ; against ,': war Jrisks.. ; ;:■:>•' ..■>■■ '■ .: • •',.-. •. ; ml; ■'■■'■•■ -■'• ''*•••'■•' •!.-••■- •••.•:..;-; MarchiTi' ; i ■».!■■: Mr ; Blythe, 'Agent- General "for! igoutnj Austrdlia, speaking .at ■the'ißoyalColonial ! .^-Institute last night, , advocated , a^; sys■f Jjem p,f,cpmi)lQt9:sel^-g9jferninent. tor-,tjie . Australian: Cplonies,.,., .' l ;< L v;., '-', . L ... i-j The members of tfce"Trubfin 'Vilj 1 Council haye decided not to accord any H 6mb&i >velcj>nie to j thel PriricW and Pi;meess of Wales' during their intended visil to Ireland:"^ i'i -i n»- 'm'.i'Ukl ■• ! ,_,. t Hong Kong. Mai;ch 10. ; The Bolfiiwell ( 'Castlef barqiie, from No wcastle,, which . left that port foi 1 Petrovalox'wa'ori'l'Tbli'Niclvember, ran oil a reef at Ngarik Islands, and -became a total wreck. The captain and crew were saved. The Ngarik Islands ligL,pn the eastern' j'sJLdejj ptthejgrotip^pf Pacific Is- 1 lands kno\vH as ttie..Car6lhie Islands. ,