CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1639, 19 February 1886, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRiPH— COPYRIGHT) (SPECIAL TO UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) London, Feb. 17. Sir Charles Dilke has declined to enter the Ministry because he is unwil-hng-to risk re-election. Many -letters are appearing m the ..daily papers de-, man ding that the Queen's Proctor intervene, and the Press declare that the case looks suspicious. Mr Gladstone on the ground of the necessity for preliminary inquiries, proposes to postpone dealing with the question of Home Kul« for a year. The scheme for conversion; .of New^ Zealand stocks which was 'announced' last week is groatlv liked. It is expected to save £100,000 a year. Mr Pender states that reductions on Press cable rates cannot be arranged if non contributing Colonies are to benefit by them. As it is, the Eastern extension Company is risking loss through this opposition of Germany. . A cargo of Califoruian wheat has been sold at Liverpool for £1 11s 6d.' ' The Bills Committee ot the American Congress have reported adversely on the Bill introduced by Mr Bland for the prirposeofsuspending silver coinagb m Aineridai^ ' ' >■' v Sir Saul Samuel, Agent-General for >New South Wales, presided it a meeting of the Society of Artt, at which a paper on the progreis ef t art m the,colonifes'was read.