CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1676, 5 April 1886, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

(special to united press association.) (by electric telegraph.— copyright.) London, April 2. "What action South Australia will take tii rfiferenoe to the French proppsaJs respecting the New Hebrides is undecided. It is understood that the' March outward colonial mails will, owing to the" break-down- of the- White Star Line's Britannic, be forwarded via Brindiai. Bussia is stated to be massing her troops at Bessarabia, a province of South Russia, between the Pruth and the Dniester, and is also buying horses and provisions. : -.■:.-..: Lord Harris, m a letter to the Standard, offers objection to the Melbourne Club retaining the surplus receipts of the present trip of the Australian team to England, but is willing to agree that the eleven may divide the surplus amongst themselves. Mr Henniker/Heaton is promoting a Penny, Postage League, and' 120 mem here have already joined. 1 Bussia is desirous that the Powers should give her a mandate to occupy | Bulgaria. .:'■ ■•■■■■ (BEUTEE's TELEGBAMS.) : London, April 2; • In the Souse of Lords to-dayt Earl Crranvile, Secretary for the Colonies,stated that the Government had carefully studied the question of Emigration f and had asked for information on the subject from the Agents-General. ■ • ' i An important meeting of the repre-; sentatives of the Mercantile community was held to-day m Guildhall, under the Presidency of the Lord Mayor, to discuss the question of Home Bule for Ireland. A resolution was passed condemning the proposals for its institution.