CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1504, 12 November 1885, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

(BY KLBOTRIC TBLBOBi PH .—COPYniQHT.") (special, to united' press association.) London, Nov. $.* ; The exhibitors v at the Interna-' tional Inventions Exhibition have presented Mr Edward (Cunliffe Owen, the Secretary, with 4000 guineas. Intelligence from the Soudan .states ,: that, the Ist of the Berkshire Regiment, the Cameron ? Highlanders, and the 2nd Durham ' -l#ight . fnfentry-ar^-now«<mafehing-to the northward, and will be shortly folloysred by the 2nd Battalibti of the Esiex Regiment. ; .Sir -flerecules Robinson, Governor -of the Cape,v Has paid a visit ,-tp ; Vryburg, the capital of Stellaiand.' The British flag was insulted, the- populace on the occasion. ;•.*! It is believed that the Pope,; who I consented to arbitrate between Spain and Germany regarding session of the Caroline Islands, -Jias : awarded the occupancy of them to Spain, on the condition that certain privileges possessed by Germany there are respected. ' I . Professor Strong, m the Pall Mall Gazette, advocates that the seyeial Agents-Qene,ral of the colonies should be ex-pfficio members of the House of Commons. \ Mr Stead, found guiltyon the charge of abduction of the "girl Lily Armstrong, has admitted the justice of the jury verdict. In the French Ministry,' M. Gomdt has accepted the portfolio oTAgrjculture, and M. Danstresme that of Commerce and Finance. : Creuteb's telegrams.) . Londonv Noy. 10. Per Merchant Shipping and Underwriters* Association :— Arrived— Cooleen, from Lyttelton (August 'The Australian mails to October £, : ex, Orient Company's R.M.S. Sdrata, were delivered here to-day via Naples. \ , Nov. 10. A loan of is announced I to be placed oh the market for the Melbourne Harbor Board. 'The interest is 4£ per cent., and the minimum has been fixed at 101. Tenders will be opened on the 17th November, The annual Lord Mayor's dinner was held at the Guildhall last night. The Premier Lord Salisbury, replying to the toast of Her Majesty's Ministers, stated that Russia was heartily co-operating with Great Britain m marking the Russo-Af-ghan frontier. Referring to the Burmese difficulty, Lord Salisbury said that as little change would be made m the administration of Burmah as was consistent with the interests of the British Empire.- Alluding to the Confjeirence; now si^ ting at Constantinople, he*expressed the hope that the strength of parties would be maintained unimpaired, and that such a settlement would be arrived at as would satisfy; thepeople concerned. The policy of Her Majesty's Government m Ireland was to uphold the union to protect the loyalists, and generally to give contentment and happiness to the people. . .