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Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 56, 4 August 1885, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

'.ELECTJIIC. TKLROIMPir.— COPYRIGHT.) (UEUTEU's TELEGRAMS.) London, Angu.?fc 1« Th*s New Zealand Shipping Company's R.M.S. Tonganro left Plymouth this afternoon for Poet Chalmers, caljing at Teneriffe and the Cape en route. " August 2 The Commons have had under considt:ration for some time past the .question of the bettor protection of young girls, and a measure for the purpose, was tho subject of a protracted debate orv Friday night. Eventually, tho age up to which girls aw to bo protected was raised to sixteen years. ' " August 3. The Right Rev Dr Walshe was to-day consecrated Archbishop of Dublin, by His Eminence Cardinal Moran. r Ottawa, August 2* The trial of tho insurgent, Louis Reif, was concluded." yesterday. The jury found the prisoner guilty, but recomI mended him to .mercy: on account of the weak state of his mind. ■ Later. Lonis Reil, was to daj r brought up for sentence, and was condemned to be hanged. .■-.•■ Madrid, August 2 Cholera, continues to spread with unabated vigour, and the daily.mortality is Very great throughput the country. ' ■• ' AGE- SPECIAL. • , ; (UNITED" PtfESS AgSOQtATION".) . JLoNi;Q>f, July 23. Sir Charles Gavan Duffy has written * to the Earl of Carnarvon, suggesting that th« system of. Government in' the Australian Colonies be conceded to Ire-' laud. :» ' ■. :-■■ •