CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1566, 26 November 1885, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

i (BY ELKCrBIO TBLBQHAPH.— COPrRIGJHT.} ..(SPECIAL TO' UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.]! I ;; '; '..:;, £*■'■ " s London, N0v. 23. The barque Parfliia, which sails for Sydney on Saturday, takes 310 domestic servants as passenger's. • Ruraofs are current at the Stock Exchange that the Victorian Government intend to-^raise a loan of four to eight million -pounds. Noy f 24. A Shanghai firm are building four large steamers at <sreenoqk/ which they intend* placing m the ChinaMelbourne trade. The • Australian- mails, dated .Melbourne, 16, per Orient Company's- R.M.S. John Elder, wgere delivered here to-day, via Naples.: >\ * '■ i $1 '. Messrs Simes h Co.; woolbrokew, have suspended payment. Calcutta, 23» * The Burmese expedition^ fias now ascended the Irrawaddy as far as Mingyor. . ; „ 'X- • King Theebaw has issued a further proclamation m -which rhe announces his intention to seiße Arracan and. other towns' situated m British Burmah. (ebuter's telegbamb.") Ldkdon, Nov. 24. The Liberal members have been returned unopposed for Merthyr, Tydvill, Carlisle, and Wolverhamptoa South. A rumor is current that King Alphonso of Spain is so seriously ill that he is m a dying condition, but .so far no authentic' foundation for the report has been discovered.The Prince of Wales, Grand Master ot the English Freemasons has granted a warrant for the establishment of an Empire. Lodge. A banquet to the colonial magorvaow m England, will be held to-night m commemoration of the event. The late members for the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, London, have all been re-elected unopposed. ' , , - .„;