CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 20, 22 June 1885, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

( HY KLEOTRIO TEtiKaitAPH.— COPTkfOnT. iSPECIAL TO UNITKD PRESS ASSOCIATION) London, JunelZ The 'shipment of gfapes-by^tba^riept steamer Graronno is wortMe^y.^. '" Miss Smith, darigliter :6f' Jsi* Murray Smith;, Agent-General for " ! "V;ictoriaVhaa been married to Lieut. H. H: Calvert, of the 7th. (Princ* Royals) Dragoon Guards.. . : •'■••■• •'. ■. Sir William Robinson, Governor of South Australia, has written a letter to -the Pall Mall Gazette, m which he opposed the scheme for the establishment • oo r » Federal Council of Advice. "the. nomination of Lord Randolph Churchill to the portfolio of Secretary of State for India is strongly censured, and ; the Marquis of Salisbury is blamed for j-'yoilding to and accepting Lord Churchill's : ad vice regarding the " formation of the i Cabinet.. . . The frozen meat by the Orient steamer Garonne, from . Melbourne, is realising . !5d ]ior pound. The meat from Sydney j by tho same steamer is selling; at Id per lb lower. ■ Mr Mackelvie, who recently presented several works of art to the Auckland Art Gallery, has bequeathed ' .£40,000 to the same institution. ■ : Captain Bingham, recently -appointed to the New South Wales Artillery force, sails by the P. 0. steamer Pekin. . William Sheehan,, who was arrested near Auckland, on the charge of the murder of his mother, sister, and brother at Castletowne Roche, and subsequently -remanded home,, has been brought up, charged with that offence, and has been committed for trial. John Elder and Company are building three steamers for the German Lloyd's Company, 'for use m .the new German- .j Australian steam service. . . . ,| The Times to-day publishes an article j on tho labour traffic. Commenting on ! the startling revelations disclosed by the j investigations held by the Queensland ] Government, into the matter, it states that England must not- permit. a slave State to exist m Northern Queensland., j It is probable that the Right Hon. j Colonel Frederick A. Stanley ' will; be ( Secretary of State for the Colonies; the Right Hon. William H. Smith/ Secre.tnry of Sta|e i ;|oj:.W^ : ;\tbe...Big'hl Hon. Lord' Geojge^^J'HainiltOn^ First;L6rdof the Admiralt^.'th^' Righf Hem.' ; Edward Gibson, Irish" Chaiiceuor, 'and MrA. J. Balfoar, Irish Secretary* I'm1 'in -tne new Ministry. ' : : - ; v; :■■•■! . d „..;; j, ...,,-.