CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1594, 29 December 1885, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

(BY ELECTRK3 TEUKGR\PH.— COPYRIGHT) (SPEIAL, TO UNITED PRKSS' ASSOCIATION.) London, Dec. 23 Obituary — Mr Brooke, of the firm of Crooko and Co., Australian merchants, i/i Sir George Btwen, Governor ' : of Hong Kong, is about to return to England. Mr Forster opposes the establishment of an Irish Parliament. Mr Gladstone has stated that he will support any adequate Government measure that may be brought forward for the settlement of affairs m Ireland. Mr Rowe has been elected to the directorate or the London Chartered j Bank of Australia. | Ij is reported that Mr Murray Smith, Agent-General for Victoria, will return to Australia before the opening of the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, instead of October, aa at first arranged. Mr j Berry will succeed Mr Smith. I j The cable companies have completed ' arrangements with Groat Britain re the proposed reduction m cable charges. They are now submitting the question of reduced rates oh Press messages to the Foreign Powers, but no serious difficulty is expeetod m satisfactorily arranging , the charges. I The Hon. A. J. Mundella has agreed to serve on the Education Commission. Dec. 26. The wheat quotations are unchanged The cargo by the Alastor has been sold at 31s 9d. The Postmaster-General and First Lord of the Treasury have approved of ' the proposals of Mr U. C. Baker, of i South Australia, for a Federal mail service between Holland and the colonies, and tenders will, it is understood, shortly j be invited. William Sheeban, who was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of his mother, brother and sisters at Oastletownroche, has confessed to having committed the crime. ' Sir Frederick "Napier Broome, Governor of Western Australia, has not baen allowed to send a delegate from that Colony to attend the Federal Council,' which is to be held at Hobart. (reutkr's telegrams.) Tknektffe, Dec. 24.. The New Zealand Shipping Company's R.M.S. Tongariro left this morning for New Zealand. Paris, Dec. 27. The Senate has approved the Tonquin and Madagascar war credits by large majorities. Cairo, Dec. 27. Mnkhtar Paaha, the Anglo-Turkish Commissioner, arrived here yesterday, from Constantinople. London, Dec. 26. The Homeward December Australian mails arrived at San Francisco yesterday.