CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1492, 28 October 1885, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

(B 7 ELECpBIO TELBOBiPH.— COPYRIGHT.) (SPECIAL STO UNITED PBEBS ASSOCIATION.) ;■>.; ; London, Oct. 26. Xord Randolph Churchill, m his speech at Birmingham, contended that a repetition of the New Guinea affair would cause Australia to secede. Lord Hartington disputed the right of Australia to complain m the matter, and also protested against the statement that a war between England and Burraah would - -* probably result m the annexation of that country. , . .I• ' ; It is feared that the delay which ha 5.:.... taken place m regard to" 'arra*tigin#"l;nit$ ** - s visit of an Australian cricketing .team will prevent a good county prbgramine being drawn up. The -Servian troops are inarching on t Ira (sic); *-■ ' <■? ■ ' i'-'u-^ I Prince Albrecht has accepted the Regency of the .Duchy of Brunswick. At a banquet given to General Sir I Frederick .Roberts, the Duke of Cambridge said the {presence of :the Aim-, ) tralian Contingent ■ was a source -of ' great gratification, and indicated that the greatest possible assistance might be expected from ' Australia m a case of emergency. Louis Riel, the rebel, is to be hanged on the 11th November. • ■>. A sculling match has taken place between Teenier and Hanlan, m which the latter was defeated. -' • \-\ ■■■J The Dutch Government propose sending an exploring expedition to New Guinea. ? ; Parliament will be dissolved on November 18. A clean bill of health iB now issued to all vessels arriving from Marseilles,, as the cholera has now been .stamped, out. Cheutee's telegrams.) . \ : Constantinople, Qefc 26^. A convention haa,been signed'^ the; Porte and Great Britain on the subject of Egyptian affairs, and Sir Henry Wolff" leaves at once for Egypt m order to carry" ' out its provisions. ■ ./ News is to hand that the ; -^Servian: troops have occupied a Bulgarian customhouse, situated, on the frontier between the two countries. /:;-■• (AGE 3piBCIALB.y^V (Per 8.8. Wairarapa at the Bluff.) (UNITED PREBB ASSOCIATION.) London, Oct. 14. The Marquis of Lansdowne has condemned the proposed scheme of Imperial federation. With respect to the Bulgarian question the Russian Government '-has declared itself to'be in .favor of reverting tq v the - statuo quo. Prince Alexander of Batten** * burg, however, has adopted, a defiant attitude, but Austria is decided as to the line of policy to be pursued. There is little hope now of a peaceful settlement of the difficulty/ and bloodshed, v it is considered inevitably will be the result. .:'■•/ ' . :■•■;•■,;■ „,.--. ■'■■ , v October, 18. ; ' ; Mr Gladstone condemns the demanj^t of Greece and Servia for - additional S territory as untenable. It is reported. .<•> that Bulgaria is willing to cede Widdin,. "" a fortified town on the river J)apubej::to»>:i Servia, as a means of conciliating that State. .... * \ t:.. •* : ' 5 , . October ij£ Prince Alexander of Bulgaria hastendered his formal submission to the authority ;of the great Powers* ajad the , outlook of the situation has consequently -k greatly improved, and a settlement of the dimculty which arose out of the re- ■; "' volution m Roumelia will now probablybe arrived at on the basis of a modified: - unity m Bulgaria and Roumelia, withr " some trifling concessions to the othefcprovinces.