CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1716, 25 May 1886, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

(ELECTRIC T EL ' GBA PH. — COPYRIttET. ) (SPECIAL TO UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) London, May 21. Fifteen experts have examined the Victorian wines, and express themselves satisfied with their condition, and especially that of the aged samples. The Adelaide wines will not be examined until the jurors are appointedRiver Plate wools at the Antwerp sales have advanced 15 centimes. It is expected that the Treasury will stop the passage of the Bank of South Australia Bill through the House on the ground that the measure tampers with a recent enactment. • : . : - The frozen meat by the lonid is selU ing Rt s^d. . -■•" "•■■•'■' ' A shipment of New" -South Wales applep has arrived m good condition, hut the Adelaide pears are partially osror- ; ripe, and the grapes are bad. Hardy pears are selling at 7d each . Jaehne, the New York alderman, convicted of bribery, has been sentenced to ten years. For the gpjlliajr match between Perkins and Matterson on the 24th the latter is slighlly the favourite, "but there is no betting. An appeal to the public for assistance for <he sufferers by the recent hurricane m U'iji lias failed. ''. Tho members of the Australian cricket team have bean introduced to the Prince of Wales. Acting on the suggestion of the Marquis of Normanby, a conference is being arranged for during- the Exhibition time to consider the desirableness of State directed colonisation. The Gorman Colonisation Society claim to have occupied the Island of Angayisa, or Great Comoro, lying m tho Manzambique Channel, prior to the protectorate of France. ■i.-"-'" .'.''.' :' l '"'".' - .■'-'.■• May 22. . Hanlon is delighted at the acceptance of his challenge by Beach, and will sail for England early m June. : . The New South Waleß grapes hava arr.iv.ed m splandid condition, and will be exhibited at the Horticultural Society's show on Tuesday next. A quantity of them has been sent to Windsor as a present to the Queen. The Queensland Export Company has been registered, with a capital ot £100, 000. They intend to purchase Graydawes and Company's Freezing works. Messrs P. Burgoyne and Company, wive merchants, have made large parchases of Adelaide wines. ... Owing to the espionage law, all German officers studying m France have been recalled. -. '■-■''-■■ -"■■ It is stated that the summer 'furlough usually granted to German: officers has been refused. Eighteen applications have: been received hero for space at the Jubilee Exhibition to be held at South Australia. • • The Judiciary Committee of the United States Congress have declared .'•hat polygamy is unlawful. . . • Russian candidates at the Roumelian . elections have. collapsed.- • Or Ahflarn believes that the Colonial Office is favourable to the objects of the North Queensland Separation League. ' Mr Authorney Horden's Company established for the construction of a railway from Albany to York, is announced with 100,000 subscribers. Mount Etna is now m violent eruption. The North Queensland Mortgage Investment Company, With * capital of one million, has been registered. :