CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1509, 18 November 1885, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

(uy i-.i,i:<~n;i<: tklkciupw — o.m>vutauT.) (SPECIAL TO UNITKI) I'UKSS ASSOCIATION.) LoxnoN. Nov. 15. i Obituary — The Ameer of Bokhant. M. Floquet has been elected President of the new Chamber of Deputies. ... The_,French Government, refuse to allow affairs m Tonquin and Madagascar to become stagnant. - The Melbourne Harbor ~Tcust Loan will probably be floated at : It is feared that rioting will be indulged m by the French Cana- | dians qh the occasion P^ the execution of Louis Itiel. The number of Servian trobps m the,fieldJsll)7ipoomen.' ; ; - The Servians have captijred l Trn, a town oh the road to Sofia. NoV. 16; ; In consequence of the turn affairs have, now taken m regard to the Roumelian complication, the Vienna Press predict war, between Austria and Russia. Greece rejects - the proposal * * for the restoration of the statics quo ante. A Burmese 1 mah-of-waf lias been captured by the British. At the! time of the capture the vessel was lying under the shelter of Mirihla ■fort. l ■■■■■■,'"■;■. .'"'■ ■' " ;

(REUTEB's TELEGEAMS;) ' ; London, Nov. 16. The English and Continental newspapers generally m their articles upon] the Servian invason of Bulgaria, express their fear that; A\|stwa and Russia will T^e drawn intotne struggle, ■■■_.■.• .':•',^^JL^j '•■*• - • : Calcutta, Nov. 16. ; The Anglo-Russian, Commission; for the settlement of the Riisso-A^l ghan frontier question has met at Zulfikar. • ;. ; Eangoon, Nor. 16. | Major-Gieneral/ Rr^ndjergast re-( pqrts that the, British, launch /Turquoise has attached and capturedia: Burmese man-of-war cm , the . JwaH waddy , Riyer, • The ', cajiture was! effected m a most plucky manner. 1