CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 38, 13 July 1885, Page 4

CABLE NEWS.

SPECIAL TO UNITED PIIKSS ASSOCIATION. (SLECTitIO TELEGRAPH. ODI'YttIOUT) London, July 9. The frozen moat from Melbourne by ' the Orient steamer John Elder is selliug at s£d per lb. The moat by the Sorata has arrived m good condition. The shipment of grapes by the John Elder from Melbourne and Adelaide is t>»4^ ;. . . . : ' .... . An immense seusation has been caused here by the Pall Mall Gazette publishing an article nridt-r the guiss of tho Refb'rm of Social Erils, m consequonco 1 of which tho paper has been expelled from all clubs and book stalls.' The police are also preventing the sale of •the paper containing the offensive article, and tho authorities threaten to to take proceedings against the propiia-' tors qf tho Gazette, m retaliation, the proprietors of the paper -threaten to publish disclosures which will 'involve' K6y alty and Cabiu«t iiinisters. '- !

(REUTEU's TEIijEGRAMS.) - . '■;;,;■;! ';■;:'"'■■ ' ;'.. '> " : July 10.; The floating ot the .-Melbourne Harbor: "Trust Lpau has been poaipo ied, : until 1886.:/;. .; ../ ...; ■'.■-.-,/' Mr Hicks-Beach informod the House: that'oiit of the extraprdiuarj vote of ■ £il,pop i OO6 J ... £10,0QP,0C0. had already^ been expended. ' : ' ; . The diacusion on the Colonial Federation Enabling Act did not take place when the second. reading; was moved, but it is | reserved until the: measure- shall have reached' com liiidee stage. Sir R. Herbert, permament Undor v Secretary for tlie Colonies, has informed the various iColomial r Agentsrgefieral that the Government intend to move the; omission of ]the proviso allowing -^ny! Golony quitting the Federal Union to re- ; peal the Acts referring to itself; .that may; have been passed by the Federal Coancilj during. the • time that such was a member! .of f^he, Union;: .;.,•!,.':',■-. \