CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1561, 20 November 1885, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

(by electric' tblkobiph.— -ooptiiqht.) (special to. dnitbd press association.) ? \\ , London, Nov. 17. The Agents-General of the several colonies have Jiad an interview with "Sir P. (."Owen, at which it was resolved to exclude all English manufactures from colonial produce at ! the Indian and Colonial Kxhibition. Sir Phillip Owen also intimated that it was des'rable that all exhibits. should Tie recewecTby ApriOsth. • It is believed t that, .provided the Colpnies agree to permanently__contribute the XT^HMralready jm£ mised toward defravin^ tHcf j>re«^ jNew Guinea' Britain will proclaim sovereignty over the territory there,-and grant the u^ual'qo;nstilutu)n.'; f The Servians arc seeking to annex Wjddint ;■> j ■-, , \ ■-• * j , The Melbourne/ EJapborJ JTru^sf Loan was covered eight-fold, and the average is' Llos7B'Bd/ , Nov.,ia s SirVCharles G'avan Duffy, fjsr now recovered from his recent illness. He has received ;a] Requisition to contest an Irish seat at the coming general, elections, .hat hpf been compelled to llecline ?i the request. ; , . , r gr Mr Childers considers the proposal I ib^ I establish a Brijish j Zollverein on the lines of the German Zollverein as impossible olf attairtment/ ■■ „ ; t • '*) , The Dutch Parliament have voted ten thousand florins' fdr the-explor-ing expedition which is about to be despatched to New Guinea. The French Radicals are furious at the refusal of M. Brisson to grant N a plenary amnesty to the rebels. -rip ' Tonquin and Madagascar, and his , desire to take active measures m those countries. It is considered that the fall of the Cabinet is inevitable. "^ ' ..':;■■'■' ;,: , ■' •• ; - ■'- : (rEUTEb'b TEEEGRAMB ). ! " LONDON} Novi IIP ' I The Australian mails ex P. & 0. Company's R M.S. Peshawur, dated Oct. 8, were delivered Ito-day via Brindisi; ' ..;; -a ..■■ ../ :^-N^r v lßi--: ; Mr Gladstone addfessed% ! meeting of his constituents at West Calder last night. In the .course of his speech he referred at some length r tb f the" present, difficulty^ 'ln Roumelia, and applaUded the course -adopted . by? the , jMarquis of Salisbury m dealing with the subject, ; '