CABLE NEWS.
• 'i ♦ '■■ ■ '■» (BY fiLECfTRIC TELEGRAPH .-- COPYRIGHT .) (SPKCIAE TO UNITED PRB3S ASSSOtiIATiOX.) jibNDoN, Feb. 22. Thrie Jroniptfiies are willing to undertake the construction of a second cable between New Zealand and Australia for £180,000. It is officially announced that Germany lias annexed the Marshall, Brown, and Providence groups of islands m the Pacific. Sir Charles "Dilke offers to assist the Queen's Proctor should he intervene m the divorce suit Crawford v. Crawford. The Irish-Bishops demand Home-Rule for Ireland, the effaceinent of landlords by means 6t State .purchase^and^alßO suspension of the eviction of tenants.' . February 23. Hanlan offers a 5000 dollar ; prize if Beach will compete m a sculling iace at r Canada, Beach receiving half the amount should he suffer defeat. • The mails ex Peninsular and Oriental R.M.S.* Massillia, from Melbourne (January 14th), iwere" dehyere'd today Lvia*> Naples. * ' ' ' Capetown, Feti.^2. The Shaw, Savill and Albion Com'^ . pany's s.s. lonic sailed last night for New Zealand ports. - : -'l' j /■' ii- — — ft
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1644, 25 February 1886, Page 2
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160CABLE NEWS. Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1644, 25 February 1886, Page 2
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