CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1507, 16 November 1885, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

(?Y ELBOintlO TELKGBiPB. — COPYBIGHT.) (SPEOIXL -TO UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) v s ; ,: &*' London, Nov. 12. The Victorian Government m August last requested the Imperial War Office to allow Major-General Downes to draw his pension as a retired officer while occupying the poßi tioii'of Secretary "for Defence m that Colony. The reply received at the time, although not definite, practically-amounted to a- refusal, and, Majjpr-General Downes therefore resigned his Victorian position. The War Office have now fully considered the matter, and have definitely decided to uphold their previousrefusal. A... TransrOceanic Bank of Germany is being formed witn a) capital of 60,000,000 marks: :i ! Mr Gladstone, m an electioneering speech, stated that the Established Churches of Eiiglja'nd and Scotland would not be by the Liberals m the next Parliament.' ; ; ' ; Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, who is at present m France," is seriously ill. A Committee of enquiry nas been appointed to investigate the affairs, of the English and Australian Copper Company (Limited). The frozen meat by the Orient steamer Sorata has arrived m excellent condition. •;•;■ ■■•■ ' ■ : m Nov. IS. The Scotch Liberals appear taße much irritated at the .cautions eßec> ! tioneering speech delived by Mir Gladstone, m Edinburgh 7 . y - :? Mr R. Miiter/Stewart, oftfetfrm of Messrs Scott, Dawson, and Stewart, Australian merchants, has been elected a Director of the National Bank of Queensland. „ Tbe writs for election of member* of House of Commons will be issued on 18th inst; ; ; . ;. (r(<) ...- Spain is desirous of opening, the parleying m connection /with the Anglo-Spanish I'reate. "-., -I : ' ; ,

i (EEUXER's TELEGRAMS.)/. Rangoon, Nov. 13. ■ The proclamation issued b^yiKing Theebaw^sumnions; his Subjects to fight the English,, but admonishes them to kill none until they shall have crossed the Burmese frontier. Greatiuneasiness ; is felt, ih: Mandalay, and the European residents are leaving as rapidly as possible, no hindrance .being; offered jto r jheir movements by the Burmese.;:i ,-