CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1633, 12 February 1886, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

( ifeCTRIO TELEGRAPH.— COPYRIGHT. ) (SPHCIAB TO VHITEV PRESS ASSSOmATION;) London, Feb. 9. Mr Murray-Smith has presented two Minion vases to the' National Gallery at Melbourne. "' ' The Afientß-Geueral will h<»ld a conforetice respetstiug the New Hebrides -j on Thursday, tsir Charles Tapper, High Commissioner for Canada* will be present as representing .a PacificEawer. Relying to the welcome extended to him by ..the Agents General on hisi as* sumption to the office ' r of s Secretary' tor the Colonies, Lord Granville .expressed a hope that tlte Agents would aesiut the Crown to keep sympathy and touch withy the colonies. , ' : ? s Prince Nikita of Montenegro has gone on a visit to St Petersburg. Mr Alexander Shipley has been ;a,ppoiuted American Consul at Auckland. February 10. i The paper read at. the Colonial In-r Btituto by Mr Todil, Postmaster-General of South Australia, whs a success. Sir James Anderson, of_ the Eastern Extuhsiou Gable Company, -declares ,: that the opposition to the reduced charges is that the cable will not pay (sic). The Government will prosecute the lenders of the riot which took place after the meeting of unemployed. The appeal case. of Honlon v, Faulkner lias been dismissed with, costs. Russia is urging . a complete union with Bulgaria. .■ , : : ' : Mr John D. Brainston,- who was formerly m Queensland, but m 1876 was appointed Assistant Under-Secretary of State m the Colonial Office, has had conferred on him ; the- order of (Companion of the Bath.