CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1481, 15 October 1885, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

(UY BLKCTRIO TKI,RGB>PB .— COPVBIGHT.) (SPECIAL TO UNIT ED PRESS ASSQCIATIO\.) ! London, Oct. 12. Tho Times considers ihat Mm separatioii «>f Queensland is premature until the territory to w divided will under tak« to maintain an undevinting policy m regard to the growth. of produce by f rje instead of compulsory. labor. "AT Australian 'ntiglVas siKceeHed in' reducing the outwar.l insurance rates on sailing vessels to 7s 6d pur cent. '-- *Tl»etHwiip-cropJß:a,iailJiu:eu.u« — — English mutton will flood the market iMtil Christmas.- ■ #«' r - The various Ae-entß General have held a conference with the cable comi pahies recording ;the proposed redactions, anfl*fh«fyia;ra now coim'dent't|>kt^ a] reduction of 2s per word on public messages will sbe obtained froiiv July next. It is expected that the press rates will comb" into'fofee insanitary jhiit^ these messages' will o'e liable to delay m favor of commercial work. Such delay will probably.be only nominal., ■ , .i ? „ October 13. <- Sir F. A. Vv'eld, Governor of the Straits .Settlement, has sailed for Singaporel! -> Intelligence i : roiu Sofia $tates, that a! report has gained currency that the Servian troops ar« marching from Lesco'vatz, atpwn i,i Seryia, .to Akpal.anka, situated on : ' ihc*' 'road' to SoSa: Much alai-in ban been occasioned ambu'gst ■ Uie inhaliituiits of the latter place , j [Mr Pateii*on Ward has. beem .eJectc.d* (jhainnau of the Enalish, Scottish^ uud Australian Chartered Bank. M. de Freyciuet, lTreuch Minister of Foreign Affairs, has recognised the right of England to exclusive coutrol I over Burmah.