CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 14, 15 June 1885, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

♦ SfEOIAL TO UNtTKI) PKKBB ABB»CIATfONT. BT ELECTRIC TBLKURAPII. — COPT/HIGHT Lonuom, June 10. Tho tenders for the Great Northern Railway Bridge prer the river Hawkesbury (N.S.W.) have been referred to & committee of civil engineers, consisting of Messrs Barlow, Berkeley, and Gal. ton. Th* general opinion on the Continent m reference to the defeat of Mr Gladttone is not one of sympathy with him, but there is a distrustful feelling prevail, ing m regard to the probability of the Marqui* of Salisbury and Lord Bandolph Churchill coming into power. The Younger members of the Tory party are urging that, if their party take office, they should do away with the Coercion Act, and that loans should beraised instead of imposing fresh taxation on the peopleThe North German Gazette, m an article on tho Samoan question, considers the claim» put forward by New Zealand m regard i to t bat island untenable. Official papers have been issued which define the iiinculty that- exists m the way of creating a colonial navy. The Suez flanal has been blocked by a sunken dredge. It will be fully a week beiore the obstruction oan be removed and traffic 'resumed. (BEOTBE'S TELEGRAMS.) London, June 12. The Marquis of Salisbury has been summoned to Balmoral, by Her Majesty the Queen. The Eight Rev. Dr Webber, Bishop of Brisbane, was consorated to-day, at St. Paul's Cathedral, by the Archbishop of Canterbury, assisted by a large number of prominent clergy. The ceremony was witnessed by a large congregation, j