CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 109, 13 April 1885, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

SPECIAL TO UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. (BY Bf.BCTRIC TELEGRAPH-COPYRIGHT.) London. April 9The French paper Bosphore Egyptienne, says it is supposed that M. Floquet will succeed M. Henri Brison as President of the Chamber of Deputies. The Chinese troops will evacuate Tonquin on tho 16th May. The French blockade of Formosa will be raised to-morrow. March 10. A great Indian rising is feared m North-west Canada. The Oriental Bank is forming an Assets Company, with a capital of .£600,000 for the purpose of dealing with colonists. Captain Grieves has been selected for the command of the Queensland Artillery. The meat cargoes by the lonic from New Zealand, and the Liguria from Australia, are selling at 6d per lb. As a result of the Commission of Inquiry into the German land claims m Fiji, it is believed that M. Sahl will alone receive a small compensation. The Pacific Commissioners will bring up their report next week. It is believed that at all points, with the exception of Samoa, steps will be taken to absolutely suppress the sale of arms, explosive substances ot all descriptions, and the sale of alcoholic liquors. Measures will also be taken for the establishment of a proper control over the island labor trade. Mr J. C. Bray, ex- Premier of South Australia, returns to Adelaide via America, towards the end of May. . Mr J. B. Thurston, Colonial Secretary of Fiji, will sail on May 7th.