LATE CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 67, 18 August 1885, Page 4

LATE CABLE NEWS.

(Per s.s. Manapouri at the Bluff.),

. (AGE SPECIALS.) : • ; (UNITED PIIW ASSOdIATIONO 1 ;' . ..-.'< •: • Lqndon, August 6. , The French Government is about to commence $hevdepsrj;ation o£ recMif istes :ftiidpr/ autl^fii^ rconf erred ]by rthtf Act, vecintly passed by the Chambers, fe first batch... of .de^pttee^will'^e pent? to Frencii'ferdiana, ■ bayen*4 Southlfijaeri^/; 1 " >Augifetß!j j.ij , T \Sit \CHarleS BilKeMms b&en made co-^ respondent m the divorce suit Cr|wf<»Kr v Crawf ord. The* respondent 'fe daughter f.of«Mr'Eli^ta&;Sinif^V««hs»atß m the Hduse of Commons for Tyne North. Sir Q. . Dilke has -written a; lettej?! to ? a , Committee of the House of Commops . denying his guilt. , .... . , : - ; Mr GatrickYAgent General fpr Queensland, has written to the 2'wn£s, stating that the majority of ' the residents^ of ' Northern Queensland are opposed to the' present movement for the separation 6f l that portion ot the Colony, and its,establishment as a new Colony. I Colonel Stanley, Secretary of . Sta^e for the Colonies, replying to a question asked by Lord Lymington m the House of Commons, stated that the matten-pf arranging ; .th»" proportion ,to,. be.^qQnfcribiited by each of the Australian Colonies towards the coat of maintaining the British protectorate over New Guinea was still unsettled. ».•'•■ Mrs Butler (Miss Elizabeth Thompson) has repudiated, any connection with the picture which was purctiased for the | Sydney National Art Gallery, arid which j was represented to be a replica of her I painting of the " 8011. Call." ;