LATE CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1468, 30 September 1885, Page 2

LATE CABLE NEWS.

(reuter's summary,) (Per s.s. Rdtdmahana at the Bluff.) London, August .2l. Cholera is generally diminishing m Spain, though some parts — Granada more particularly — are still very severely, visited. The epidemic is becoming serious at Marseilles, and is extending to Toulon 'and other towns m the South ot France. The German Government has expelled from Alsace M. 'Robin, ex' French Minister m Ttalvjr who w.-is resident m Alsace .fpr. several years. T.he reason alleged by .German papers is that M. Robin had .'identified himself with the French Alsatian", Patriotic party. : . ; The^German occupation of the Cardline -Islands produced great irritation m Madrid. It was regarded as: a violatiou pf ancient incontestable right 3. of Spain, ■jtris reported m. Paris 'to-day that Eih«y Alphonso has resigned his Col6nelcy of a Prussian Uhlan Regiment, to which he was appointed m Isß3. M. Ilochef brt's Journal lately pubr lished a letter/from a person * named Sclocovitch, formerly interpreter to the British Army m the Soudan, declaring that Olivier Pain had been arrested m the Soudan, and shot by order of the British military authorities. Since then Rochefort has -written a; series of articles ot the most outrageous . character, grossly insulting to the British Government and to Lord Lyons, threatening the latter and. endeavoring to hound on the Paris mob to attack the Embassy.'. \ „ Sir Drummorid Wolffe reached KaYak; at the entrance to the Boaphorus, yesterdoy, wl^ene will perform forty-eight hours \ v qua£antine before.; going to Constantihbpl&i' The success of his mission to the Sultan is believed to depend very much on the disposition of Germany,. and the latter' s goodwill is .far. from certain. The object of the mission is understood to be to arrange a settlement of the whole Egyptian question, military, political, including the relief of the equatorial garrisons with the co operation of Turkey, and perhaps frith'/ the armed help of ■ Itaty. Active : lntrigues against the British Envoy are beirfg carried on by Russia and France, the former Power particularly desiring to prevent an. under, standing between England and Turkey, while' France pursues a system of hostility to England which, for a Jong time past, has been the dominant note of her Foreign policy. The meeting Of the Czar and the Emperor of Austria at Kremhier, following ; cloge upon the conference between Prince i Bismarck and Count Kalnoky at- Varzin, gives rise to much political speculation. Sir C. Dilke will shortly inarryMrs Pattisonj widow of v the late Mr Mark Pattison. Very shortly after the publication of the news of the impending divorce suit, m which Sir C. Dilke is corespondent, Mrs Pattison telegraphed from India the announcement of her^ng^gement.