CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XII, Issue 1739, 21 June 1886, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

(ELECTRIC TELEORAPH.— CC*PyBIQHT. ) (SOCIAL UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, June 17. : The fruit by the Iberia is frost bitten, and damages have been claimed from the Orient Company by the shippers. The report that the Rev Mr Thompson, of Cardiff, has been offered the Bishopric of Melbourne is untrue. , The frozen meat by the Orient steamer:. Iberia is selling at s£d, and that by the 1 Rimutakaat s|d. Sir Saul Samuel and Sir Daniel Cbopir have been asked to take charge of the Ne#Sbiith Waleß Court at the Exhibition'. 1 ' >T The shipment of fruit by the Rimutaka ia m a- "damaged condition, owing to defectiye packing. 1 . The Cplioniai Qffice ia opposed to the number ; of suggested honors to be conferred upon those connected with tbe Exhibition. The chiefs, of the Badahshans, m Ashlfeg haye seized I and confined. Colonertibckhart and party, who are engaged upon the work of delimiting the Afghan frontier. - June 18. The Yen Archdeacon Blunt, D.D.. of • Scarborough, has declined th« Bishopric of Melbourne. ■•■... ' The Invercargill Municipal loan of £150,000, at 4^ per cent, has been placed m the market . The minimum, has been fixed at 98. and tenders will be opened on Monday, 28th inst. ' The Berlin wool market will open tomorrow, with good- prospects, • Mr Gladstone, on his jpurney to Edinburgh, has met with ovations at the various stopping places.. •••