CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1712, 19 May 1886, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

(electric 'telegraph.— oopyriget. ) (special to unitbd press associate.) London, May 16. The Austrian Admiral landed . at Skiathos,. an island off tho coast of Greece, 10 miles north of: Euboea, and levieil contributions of food. The stringency of tho blockade is placing the inhabitants of JEgina and Volo m great straits. Lord Salisbury, at a meeting of the Tory party, last night, advocated the emigration of a million of Irish to Manitoba. He expressed the conviction that a dissolution was imminent. The| Liberal dissentients decline to vote for Home' Rule even as an abstract | principle. •'.'•• I The minimum majority against the E measure is expected to be 41, and possibly it may .amount to 100. Mr Chamberlain and Lord Harfcineton have been reconciled. May 17. The trial of Alderman Jaehne, a New York jeweller, charged with bribery m taking 20.000d01a for \ flies on the Broadway Hailway Franchise, has been concluded. Jaehne was found guilty, bat sentence was deferred. Three hundred, and fifty thousand Kassian troops are being massed m the Crimea and Bessarabia. Destruofcive. oyclones, doing an im>-' rntnse amount of damage, have been exparienced m America, Italy, Germany, and Austria... The Standard states that one N«w Zealand hank ia reported to have' lost £300,000 tliroujjh-.^efalcations; • , ' . . • The Rev. ' .Davenport ; Kelly is rqentioned as Bishop Moorhouse's successor,