CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 54, 1 August 1885, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

EfiF.C T ac TifLEOßAl'ir. — COPYRI&HT.) SPECIaL TO UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. ■-"<(■• • ■ ■ London, July 28. .jVIr J: F. Garriclc, Mr Murray Smith, ani Sir Arthur Blyth, Agents-General for Queensland, Victoria,' and South Australia, are endeavoring to promote the immediate passage of the Federation Enabling Bill ; white, on the other hand, Sir Sa«l Samuel, AgentGeneral for New South Wales, is seeking.to have it postponed until February. Archbishop Moran has : presented the' Propaganda with his valuable geological collection. Before returning to ■ Sydney, Archbis- ' hop Moran will .visit ; Ireland, for the purpose of recruiting forty ecclesiastics forAußtralia. , vßishop' Redwood, Eoman Catholic Bisliup of Wellington, who is afc present on a visit to Rome, has snbmitted to the Pope a proposal for the division of his |; diocese, so as to create a new diocese for Ctoterbury. The Droposition has been referred "to the; Sacred College. The fjkilure of Baron Grant (Grant & XDo., bankdrs) for a quarter of a million pounds has been" announced.

! (REUTER's TELEGRAMS.) ■;■ ■■ ■, ! - . . I ' , London, July 30. The Egyptian loan was placed on the ■market %-day. The rate of interest is ,3- par cent., and the minimutn has been fixed at 95 j./. In the House of Commons to-day the Hon.<?; SfcanlSyV Secretary of State, for the Colonies, stated that an Imperial or Colonial Protectorate would bo established over Bechuanaland, but that Her Majesty's Government were at present undecided ;which to adopt.