CABLE NEWS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 236, 16 September 1884, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

[Reuter’s Telegrams.] Rome, September 14. King Humber has returned to this city from Naples. His Majesty was received on arrival with unbounded enthusiasm by the populace. London, September 15. Telegrams from Penang state that the crew of the steamship Nisero (who for several months past have been held in bondage by Rajah Tenom) have been released, and have arrived at Penang. Sir E. B. Malet, late British Minister at Cairo, has been appointed British Ambassador to the Imperial German Court, vice the late Lord Ampthill.

(AGE SPECIALS.) [Per Wakatipu.] London, September 3. Major General Sir Andrew Clarke, 8.E., will be employed in the expedition which is being organised to relieve General Gordon in Khartoum. H. M. Stanley, the African explorer, is to join Lord Wolsely, who will have supreme command of the expedition. The number of branches of the new Oriental Bank in Australasia will depend on the number of shares subscribed for in the Australasian Colonies. Sept. 5. It is reported that Sir Saul Samuel, Agent General for New South Wales, is intriguing to prevent the Federation Enabling Bill from being introduced into the Imperial Legislature in the approaching Autumn Session. Sept. 8. The statement that the Japanese Government has notified China that it claims to the Sovereignty of the Loo Chow group of

Islands, between the Japanese Coast and the Island of Formosa, are now declared to be without foundation. The Tinies of to-day says Mr. Murray Smith, Agent. General for Victoria, is urging upon the British Government the expediency of appointing a protectorate over New Guinea and various other Islands in the Pacific. Sir F. Dillon Bell, Agent-General for New Zealand, has again suggested that the Island of Rapa should be included in the annexation scheme. Sir Saul Samuel, Sir Arthur Blych, and Mr. J. F. Garrick, Agents-General for New South Wales, South Australia, and Queensland respectively, remain quiescent in regard to these questions. [Special to Sydney Evening News]. London, September 7. Thomas Hughes, Esq., Q.C., the wellknown politican and author of “ Tom Brown’s School Days,” and other favorite tales of school and college life, has warmly denounced Joe Thompson, the Australian bookmaker, for having, as Mr. Hughes alleges, “ fleeced ” some young men while travelling on board an Atlantic steamship. Sir Samuel W’son, the well-known Victorian squatter, who has been residing in England for some years, indignantly denies the statement published in the London World of yesterday that he is advancing money to needy swells, with a view, if possib’e, of purchasing a peerage.

It is rumored that Mr. Service, of Victoria, has dismissed Mr. J. Cassell Hoeys from the secretaryship which he held in the office of the Agent-General for Victoria. This action, it is alleged, has been taken by M . Se vice in consequence of Mr. Hoeys’ reported collusion with Home Rule members of the House of Commons over the question of a protectorate in New Guinea.