CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XII, Issue 1747, 30 June 1886, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

(ELECTRIC TELKGRAPH.--COPTERIGHT.) (SPECIAL TO UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Lonhon^ June 23*% The statement ttiiit Bdach Tiad been challenged by Gatindaur is untrue. A large mass of roughs interfered with a Unionist meeting which was being held at Islington, and. violence was used against, the Duke of. Norfolk and *M*. Llewellyn, a candidate. Tin shocks to the system of the latter gentleman wasso great that he haa died from its effects.. Mr Prince has opened an Emigration . Jnquiry Office m .the Exhibition Build- ' i n g« Republican circles are greatly incensed; at the cordial ' reception ' extended to ■ the Comtede Paris, and at the high monarchy reaction m France. A vessel which has just arrived at Boston ', reports that a barque, supposed to be the Arklow, from Auatralirfto Mon* treal, signalled her and reported that the captain had deserted his ship m an open boat. It is supposed that he feared arrest. '" ' -. . - '• ■'. ..." The Cologne Gazette -urges German exhibitors to respond heartily to'" the proposal for holding a jubilee Exhibition at Adelaide. It remarks that previous exhibitions have indrea^sed the explbrtß ? of Australia eightfold. ; Lieuf-Cplone^ Sleep and . Captain Powell} Victorian members of 'the Aus'itralian rifle team, have arrived inLondon.! The team are m good health. * In a skirmish between Dacoits and Britishv troops, nine' of the latter were killed and 24 wounded.

• : TTS(AGE' SPECIALS;,); >"■ <\l . j ; ..... ..... ....... ,_ i ... .._.,.. (Per s.s. Eotoniahana •' at the Bluff.) ■ __ (UNITEb \ PRESS ASSOOIAOION, > V .. ) London, June 20. It is stated that the Rev. Chas. Jas. Thomas, Vicar of St. John the Baptist, Cardiff, and "chaplain of the Bishop of lilahdaff, hag been offered -and wilY probably accept the position of Bishop of Melbourne. : The vacant Bishopric, has been offered to Archdeacon Blunt, of the. Eaat Riding of the County of Cork. Whilst M. de Freycinet , disclaims, any desire on the part of France' to secure the New Hebrides by strategical means, which might cause annoyance^ to English Government, it is cSrtaih tbat*France will continue military provision for the protection of \ French; subjects against attack by the natives on the lands. The official press' of France insists UDon a renewal of the negotiations between the Freheh arid English Governments for the cession- of the Islands to France. '/: a :-.":• • ■■ ' ■-''. ' ; "i 'jf' j It ; is generally expected that the ap-| proaching 1 . elections, will result - : . m, '<. jaY material gfcrensthenihgof Mr Gladstone's party, and 1 that a majority will be returned to the House of Commons pledged to support the Irish policy of the Liberal : leader. . A special service was held yesterday m St. Paul's Cathedral m commemoration of the Queen's ■ accession to ..the : throne. Visi(;6rs from Australia now m London attendttd the service m great numbers.