CABLE NEWS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 155, 12 June 1884, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

[reuter’s telegrams.] London, June 11. It has transpired that in a despatch addressed by Earl Granville to the Netherlands Minister for Foreign Affairs, his Lordship strongly insists that England’s mediation should be accepted, with a view to obtain the release of the crew, numbering twenty-five men, mostly Englishmen, of the wrecked steamer Nisers, who have been held in bondage since November last by Rapah of Tenon, in Sumatra. In the House of Commons to-day, Gladstone took occasion to deny the truth of the statements that had been made, that it had been decided that the Turkish troops should be despatched to pacify Soudan. Lord Edmund Fitzmaurice, Foreign Under Secretary, in reply to a question in the House of Commons to-day, stated that a diplomatic representation has been made to the United States Government regarding the freedom allowed in America to persons assisting in dynamite plots in the country. THE ORIENTAL BANK CORPORATION. It is understood that the order granted by the Court of Chancery for the liquidation of the Oriental Bank Corporation affairs will supersede the decision recently given by Judge Molesworth in the Melbourne Supreme Court, whereby the Victorian business of the Corporation is ordered to be wound up locally. THE RIGHT HON. W. E. FORSTER ON THE COLONIES. In the course of a speech which he made at a meeting of the Royal Colonial Institute last night, the Right Hon. W. E. Forster insisted strongly upon the necessity for maintaining the union between the mother country and the colonies, and deprecated any attempt on the part of the Imperial Government to shirk duties which it owed to the outlaying portion of the Empire.