CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 32, 6 July 1885, Page 4

CABLE NEWS.

SPEOIaL TO UNITKD rUESS ASS9CIATION. (ELECTRIC IKLEOTIAPIT. — C H'YItIOHT) London, July 3. King Alfonso's secretary has visited the cholera districts in Spain.* The new German lino o£ colonial mail j steamers will start from Breraerhavcn, but it is left optional whether they will call at Samoa. Brisbane has been included as a port of call. The Duke of Cambridge claims the Dukedom o£ Brunswick. It is reported that a Trade Enquiry Commission will probably be held -here.

TELEGRAMS.) London, July 3. Twelve thousand eight hundred feet additional at the Colonial Exhibition are now available for rateable division amongst the Australian colonies. At the meeting of shareholders in the new Oriental Bank, the report and balance sheet were adopted. The election of a member for the borough of Wakefield, in the ropm of Mr Kobert B Mackie (Liberal), deceased, has resulted in the return of Mr Green, the Conservative candidate. The Woodstock election took place today, Lord Kandolph Churchill was re elected by a majority of 137. The whole of the members ot the now Ministry have now been returned by their constituents. July 4. The New Zealand mails, dated Auck-. land, May 26, via San . Francisco, were delivered here yesterday. Tenders arc invited on behalf of the Napier Harbour Board for a loan of £300,000 at 5 per cent, minimum for which has been fixed at par. Tenders will close July 13th. Madrid, July 4. The cholera scourge continues to rage with great violence. The number of cases reported throughout the country this week is 9000, of which 4000, had' j fatal termination. ; |