CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1603, 8 January 1886, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

(ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. — COPYRIGHT. ) (SPKCIAE TO UNITED PRESS ASSSOUiAWON. London, Jan. 5. The Times states that the Government intend to introduce similar local government for the whole of the United Kingdom, and that, Mr Gladstone wil move that the proposals are insufficient for Ireland. h Sir John Macdonald, Premier of. Can ada, is willing to consent to Cinadu forming ajaf offensive and defensive league with England. Lord John Manners, Postmastcr-Gone-ral, invites tenders for a weekly or fortnightly mail service to Adelaide, via Brindisi or Naples, the service to occupy not more than 628 hours. Tenders close on 31st March.

(beuter's te-egramsO London, Jan. 3. The Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company's lonic from Lyttelten, November 31st, arrived at Plymouth last ni^ht. * Her fcezen tn«at cargo is m good condition Jan. 4. The Australian mails, dated Melbourne, Noveruher 27th, ex Orient C >inpitny's Liguria, were delivered to-day, via Naples. Jan. 5. The wool market maintains a quiet tone. Up to the present time 130,000 bales have come to hand for the JanuaryFebruary sales, which commence on the 19th* instant. A complimentary banquet was given last night to Sir John Macdonald, Pre mier of Canada. Sir' Arthur Blyth, Agent-General for South Australia, made a speech on the occasion, m which he said that the colonies had proved their loyalty to the Mother Country by their I deeds, and that loyalty, he added, would I nevor fail. • The Gree,k Government has issued a joint note, to the Powers, claiming the delimitation of the boundaries, of Greece,, m accordance with the Treaty of Berlin.