CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1649, 4 March 1886, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

fcLF.CTRIC TKLICGRAPII. — COPYRIGHT.) (SPECIAE TO UNITfID PRESS ASSSOotATiOH.) London, March 1. Tenders were opened to-day for ths Timarn Harbour Board Loan of X, 100,000 at 5 per cent, the minimum for which is fixed at £102. The total amount tendered for was £580,000 The tenders at £105 15s 9<l receive twenty per cent ou their applications, above that m full. Tho colonial Agents-General have aski'd Sir William Vernoti Harcourt, Chancellor of the Exchequer, to grant them an interview, with a view to their obtain ing" a reductiou m import duties ou colonial wines. The weather is very inclement, severe snowstorms having prevailed over the United Kingdom durrng the last twenty- . fouriiours. • ' The Rev Mr Graj*, ot Broomsgrove School, Worcestershire, has been- ap pointed Principal of "the Parramatta | High School, Sydney. Sir Chai'lfij Tapper, High Conimissiouer of Canada, has invited the several Agents-GenM-al to discuss with him a proposal to construct a cable between Vancouver Island and New Zealand. ; Sii\Sanl Samuel, Agent- 'Temo-nl for New South Wales, insists on the Weekly Dispatch denying certain insulting' ehar&eswhich were made against Sir Alexander Stuart at the Socialist Emi-gration-Conference. •'•' l j: The Colonial members of the Cham- ' be'rof Coninierce uuite with the ; mem-;! bers of St George's. Club m banquutting! Mr Murray Smith. The banquet will' take place at Cambridge on 7th April, the Earl of Granville presiding. His Roy.dl ; Highness the Duke of 1 ; Edinburgh has arrived at Malta, and; after hoisting the flag as commander of the Mediterranean Rquadroa,^will pro; ceed to join' the* combined Internationa |l Squadron at Souda. | ■: , ;March 2. ]> The Orient Co's R.M.S. Potosi, from 1 Melbourne, Jauuary Bth, arrived yesterday. ■. : .. „ ; The Aiißtraliao mails, ex Orient Co's R.M:S. Orient, January 22nd, were delivered, via Naples, yesterday. •■■•■ - .! ,-' Madras, March.l. Hia Excellency the Governor-General, Earl Dufffjrin arrived. here to day from: Burinah. -„ --.-.•.■,---.,. i •■•>.■'. : .'i-]C '-■ - ; -- ■■•-- • -.'■->. .-yd ..:, V ' i, ;