CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1486, 21 October 1885, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

(BY ELECTBIG iTELEGBi PH . — COPYBIGHT.) (SPECIAL TO UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) London, Oct. 18. It is reported that Bulgaria is willing to cede "Widdin to Servia. Obituary — Baron Strathnairn (Hugh. Henry Rose), aged 82. „-..,-.-. Mr Gladstone deprecates the intrigues of Servia and Greece m connection with the present Roumelian complications. '•'"--^ ■--■*•• ■- Earl Granville presided at a banquet given to Lord Carington at the Hotel de Metropoli. In connection with the -recall of SirCharles Warren from Bechuanaland,. efforts are being made at Capetown tohave Sir Hercules Robinson, Governor of the Cape Colony, recalled.

(BBUTEBS' TELEGRAMB.) ; Constantinople, Oct. 18.. It is announced that a body of Servian troops has occupied the Koheak Pase, on the Macedonian frontier, a position which is partly situated m Turkish territory. . . . Thereply^pf the Sublime; $c£tk\t6sie combined note of the great Powers' has been published. In reply, the Sultan asks the co-operation of the Powers m inducing the settlement of the present difficulty, more especially with a view to the attitude assumed by Greece and Servia. A diplomatic note has also been issued by Prince Alexander of Bulgaria, m which he declares his entire readiness to submit to the decision of th» Powers. Pakis, Oct. 19 . The result of the balloting shows at considerable Republican majority. 1 (AGE SPECIALS.) (Per 5.6. Ringarooma at Bluff.) (UNITED PBEBS ASSOCIATION.) London, Oct. 6. Sir Charles Dilke addressed a meeting of his constituents at Chelsea last night, and expressed an opinion that the establishment of free schools was an essential necessity. He considered also that the practice of creating hereditary peerages should be abolished m favor of life peerages. October 13. Mrs Agnas Boucicault has announced that she still claims to be the wife of Mr Dion Boucicault, who" is now on a professional visit to the Australian colonies, and who has recently married Miss Louise Thoradyke, a member of his company. Her claim is based on the allegation that the divorce proceedings were incomplete.