CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XII, Issue 1725, 4 June 1886, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

(ELECTRIC TELKGKAPH. — COPYRIGET. ) (SPECIAL TO UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) London, June 1. Sir Saul Samuel will sign a contract with the Orient Company for the conveyance ot a parcels post. The wreck of the Ly ec-moon has caused some excitement here, and the names of those drowned are anxiously awaited. Speaking at a conference at the Exhibition on the colonial wool supplies, Messrs Moncrieff and Paul, woolbrokers, said that the wool from the Eiver Plate district, would prove a competitive bugbear to the colonial article. It is stated that it is impossible for the Government to prevent the sale of frozen meat as Home produce. The Daily News considers that the banks m meddling with land mortgages have nearly provoked a crisis m Australia. In the event of a general election, MiHarold Finch Halton and Mr Pritchard Morgan will .contest Nottingham and Boston respectively. : Mr George Coppin is arranging an old colonists' dinner. Sir Saul Samuel has banquetted Sir P. G. Owen, Lord Augustus Loftus, and Sir Hercules Robinson. June 2. The division on the second reading of the Irish Land Purchase Bill will be taken on Friday. Nearly on© hundred Liberals have pledged themselves to vote against it. Canon Liddon has been elected Bishop of Edinburgh. The American action m taking Samoa under their protection is regarded with incredulity m Berlin. The Ulster men are still preparing, but their aotiyity ig not parioijily regard* tv at fWlf At,