CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1719, 28 May 1886, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

(ELECTRIC TEL GKAPU. — COPYRIGET. ) (SPECIAL TO UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) London, May 26. The electors of a sueoeesor to Bishop Moorhouse have heun unable to decide, ami have adjourned until Bth June. The Birthday honors will probably be notified on Her Majesty's Coronation Day. The petitions from the creditors of the Commercial Bank of South Australia will de heard on 22nd June, . It is considered that the prospects of the JubiUe Exhibition at Adelaide will be bright it the affair is made a Government enterprise. , ... " : "The Royal Horticultural Society have awarded the Knighton Medal for grapes and apples to New South Wales. The I Adelaide pears and apples were highly commended. The Admiralty consider the possession of Rapa of far more importance than the New Hebrides. Sir P. C. Owen has invited the Society of Arts to furnish a series of reports on the Imperial aspects of the Indian and Colonian Exhibition. The infant heir to the Spanish throne has been christened Alphonso. Don Carlos has issued a manifesto to the effect that he will not renounce his right to th > throno of Spain. The Victorian Government has presented Her Majesty with albums containing ferns and picturesque views of Victoria and Now Gninoa. The New South Wales 'Government have presented a number of emu eggs. . vln the recent engagement with the Turks, the Greek loss was 170 killed and wounded. The bethrothal of Prince Oscar of Sweden to Princess Louise, daughter of the Prince »f Wal"S, has besn arranged. On the motion of Mr H Laboucherey it was agreed that the House of Commons should adjourn to-day to enable members to witness the Derby being run.