CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1501, 7 November 1885, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

(by electric telegraph. — copybight.) (special to united press association^) London, Nov. 4. The frozen meat by the Doric has ar rived m splendid condition. ', .Mr E. G. Gracknell, Superintendent of Telegraphs, New South Wales, returns by the Orient steamer Orient. Mr Edward Coombes, C.M.G., New South Wales, will read a paper on that I Colony at the next .meeting of the Royal Colonial Institute. The Soudan war medals for the New South Wales Contingent have been shipped by the steamer Orient. " ' Nov. 5. A scheme which has been propounded by Mr R. C. Baker, M.L.C. of South Australia, for a joint postal service between England and Australia, has been referred by the Home authorities to a Postal Committee for consideration. The colonies of Victoria, New South Wales, and South Australia have already, 'ac- j cepted this proposal. The French Government intend introuuing the Torrens Act, for facilitating land transfer m Tunis. The Adelaide Chapter of Fraeinasons have beon erased f rom the English -roll. , Servia and Bulgaria have made large purchases of Australian tinned meat. Rutors have been circulated to the effect that "\ anti-German agaitation has taken ]\ cc at Manilla, the capital of the Spani~u settlements m the Philippine Islands, and that the agitators have burnt the residence of the German Consul there.

', (reuter's telegrams). London, Nov. 4. The. Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company's s.s. Doric arrived at Plymouth this morning from Wellington (25tl> Sept.) Her cargo of frozen meat is reported to be m good condition. The stock of tallow m London on the 2nd'-°of this month was 18,000 casks. ■*"' ■ Nov..sv'; The Marquis of Salisbury addressed a public meeting at Lamb tth last, night: [h the course of his speech he referred'- to the question of reciprocal tariffs. He pronounced m favor of reprisals against those countries which refused i reciprocal lariff, and- further urged that the dutiei now leved should be reduced m favor of goods imported from British colonies.