CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1642, 23 February 1886, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

■ ♦ ~ (BY ELECTRtC TELEGRAPH* - COPtRIGHl 1 .) (SPF4CIAE TO UNITED PRESS ASSSOOiATiON.) London, Feb. 21. The {Waterloo Cup was run to-daj r , and was won by Miss Glendyne, who divided the stakes last year with Bit ot Fashion. Penelope was the runnerup. In an interview with a representatire from the Vail Mall Gazette, re the new mall service to Australia, Mr R. C. Baker of South Australia, expressed on opinion that a 29 days' service would be too expensive. Iu the House of Commons, Mr Henniker Heaton has tabled a notice to the effect that it is desirablo that all the colonial forces should be placed under the control of the War Office, and that they should receive similar rights and privileges to those bestowed on Imperial'forces; and also that information should be obtained from the Colonies | whether they would be willing to contrii bate to the cost of such a proposal. Mr, Heaton has also given notice that it is desirable that a cable, to bo controlled by England, should be laid via theCapa to Australia and India. - Mr John Morley, the newly-appoint--1 ed Chief Secretary of Ireland, will not permit' the military evictions of Irish tenants. •■■■■■ Twenty applications have been re-, ceived for the chair of Professor of Physics of the Sydney University. The wheat market ifi unchanged, and the supplies from foreign parts are only moderate. The Otago Wool Growers Company has been registered with a capital of £100,000. Sir Charles Di Ike's Chelsea Committee accept his denial to the charges brought against him in t e divorce suit, Craw-ford,-v. Crawford. „ Count Von Moltke is recovering from his receut severe illness. M. Freycinet, the French Premier* now agrees to accept the bill introduced by the Extremists, by which power is given 1 for the expulsion of princes from? France. Mukhtar Pasha, Turkish Commiiisioner iti Egypt, purposes that a force of 9000 Egyptians should occupy Dongola. The English Press argue that Ireland has not virtually abandoned the Irish National League. A newspaper, published in Amsterdam, states that Great Britain purposes to parley with Germany for cession of : certain territory in New Guinea, lying to the .westward of the Fly River. ' An influential deputation has waited on the Home Government, urging that a permanent loan bo floated for the purpose of encouraging State emigration .—•emigrants repaying the money advanced by easy, instalments.