CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1635, 15 February 1886, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

(liLECTIUO TiaKUIC.VPU. -COPYBIGHt.) (SI'KOIAE TO Utfll'lsH PRKSS ASSSO.,IATIO .'.) London, Feb. li Mr Murray Stnitii sails for Melbourne on '21\ I April. The Oriental Bank lias pud the Victorian Government 200 m tlie £, with interest ad<tal, m satisfaction of their claim n s^ain jt the old bank. I Ttie Agents-Gener.il are discussing Mr j Gr'.mths 1 despatch regarding the New Hebrides. (RBUTER'S TEEEGRUIS.) London, F«b. 11. The panic caused by the outrages bag now m a, great measure subsided, and business has resumed its usual course. There was no auction sale of wool to day, on account of the dense fog which prevailed throughout the city. 22,000 bales tfave been withdrawn from sale since the commencement of the prci sent series. Feb. 12. . Mr Anderson, of the Eastern Extension Cable Company, declares that it would not pay to lay an opposition cable between New Zealand and Australia. Mr Charles Russell, Attorney General m the v v Ministry, has been re-elected to his scat. There has been serious noting m the town of Leicester. , The divorce case Crawford v. Crawford and, Dilke concluded to-day, when Sir Charles Dilke was 'acquitted by the jury of the charges brought against him. The operatives employed m the hoisery factories at Leicester are out on strike since yesterday. The town has been a scene of riotous proceedings, the imb of operatives pirachd the town smashing the windows of the factory proprietary and other persons who were obnoxious to them. They then proceeded to wreck the factories, quantities of valuable 'm icuinery being destroyed. The police were totally unable to cope with ihe outbreak and large numbiis of residents were obliged to be sworn m as special constables, v.; . ,