CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1581, 14 December 1885, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

(l'.Y KJ.KCTMC TKI.KGIUIM-I. — COPVUIGRT) (SPECIAL TO UNITED PIiESS ASSOCIATION.) London, Dec. 10. The AnufJo • Australasian Land and M >rtganv Company, with a eap'tal of £|)<IO,O'>O lias amalgam. itod wii-h a similar company at Sydney. The negotiations fir t!io amalg.im-ition wore carried out here by Mr ''-Jvorg-e Waddell. ' Sir Charles Dilke, speaking at Chelsea, i'.iiinuted that the R-ulic-ils w.m1.l support the 0 'ii.sorvativij schemes it' they wevo for tho go >d government of tho country. Mr Posnett, Tutor at Trinity College, Dubli.n has been selected as a Professor for Auckland University. Mr Murray Smith. Agent -General for Victoria, and Sir S.iul S.imuel, AgentGenoral fur Now South Wales, are framing a reply to the remarks made by tho Economist on the railways of those Colonies. Owing to the opposition of the Victorian Government, it is expected that thu establishment of Mr To. Id's p.ueel post system to -Australia will probably fall through Mr Toild is now asking the Orient Steamslrp Company to cooperate with him to endeavor to bring tiio matter to a successful issue. Another meeting of the creditors m the estate of Messrs Simes & Co., woolbrokers, was held to day. but adjourned, pending the result of parleying which is proceeding with their Western Australian house. There seem* to ha no prospect of an alliance between the inodertte Liberals and the Government. It is unlikely that the Liberals will attempt the early expulsion of the Ministry. It is believed m high quarters that the Oonseratives have refused to accede to the demands of Mr Parnell. Forty Servian cowards have bean shot for having- retorted to self mutilation m order to prevent their taking pai't m any ' engagements. It is expected that the war between Bulgaria and Servia will be resumed It is reported that the latn Ml- T. Waterhouse, of South Australia, has left property to the value of a million and a quarter m England. (RKUTEU'S TELEGRAMS). Calcutta, Dec. 11. King Theebaiv, wilh his Queen and the members of his suite, are being conveyed as prisoners to Madras.