CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1498, 4 November 1885, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

(BY KBragTßfO TRLttOBi PH. —OOPY BIGHT.) (sbeo&l'to united press association.) ) ]\ ;•'; ■ > London, Nov. 1. , The'Opuncil General of New Caledonia Jw^e petitioned the French Government T;o^nnex^the JSTew Hebrides. Tf^l&iljst news from the Soudan shows thot the rebels are steadily advancing to the northward. Aba Hamed is now threatened by them, as well as Korosko, a town between the first and second cataracts of the Nile. • '" ;__ ... ma niMiMfli-jS-' The Union Bank of Australia offers to ;r.e<3eive inscribed stock as 'deposits, wijthi interest at 4 per cent. been removed to 'Sofia,- m, Bulgaria, Cholera has ' made^ts 7 appearance at Bilbao, the principal port m the north of * (reutee's telegrams). •T'ov OLbm'oNT^ov. 2. Jer Merchant SlilpiHhff,and Tffnder--wrrterW r AsaociatipQ^\lw\Yofli,r B\st , October. vAiriifedi— Ship Jhpe l , fuSa. Auckland (22nd June). The^ Greeted Government have^ssaed a diplomatic no£e to 'thVPo'wers, claiming that their frootieri sha^ll extend as tar north as E^pirus, s,ta(ing th%tj.^Lwas su adjudged |/ by 'the Berlin Co^fersnce. ' , fKS tou4^chmeof i q^ 1 thiy^di r tionary force, which is being despatched to uphold the authority of the British High Commissioner m? Burmah, sailed to-day ior Rangoon. V^ : |liISBNN, Oct. 1. ; Arrived— Ship Mathilda, from Auckjland(2Bth May). i'^/ I ;^ : (AC»BSPItCIAi,B^pi ! (Per 8.8. Waihora at- the Bluff.) 1 (PER JNITBD PRBSB ASSOCIATION. J 1 \^'\ ?'■ -LoNijblfi bcti 20, \ The returns Jn connection with the iFrench general -election shc^r that 200 members' .pledged to anti- Republican Have been elected. 1 \ The Grand* Jury haying considered the base brought-Aajjainst Mr W. T. Sttad, editor of the Pa I Matt Gazette, for the abduction of the. girl LilyJ Armstrong, on which charge phe was. committed for ;nal at the preliminary investigation, has :'ound a true bill against the accused, and nhecase will be 1 accordingly proceeded vith at the Criminal Courti 1 Serious rioting has occurred at Copenhagen, the capital city of Denmark, and a revolution is regarded as prgbable. | October 25. j Parliament, wjllfbe formerly 'dissolved pn 18th Noveniber next. ' X -'■ >? I Mr, Gladstone is^ announced to pnen hw electioneernig campaign' at Midlothlau'on* ißth November.;- s> q r^'-i *»# i The' English 'Government have agreed tp the proposal of the Pbrta fpr,holding a conference of the repreßeniatives of the Greif Powers f or coosideratiouiSjf »*fi9* Roamelian Question.