YESTERDAY’S CABLE.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 7076, 23 February 1893, Page 1

YESTERDAY’S CABLE.

BRITISH AtyD FOREIGN. (Pbr Electric Telegraph—Copv big nx. [Pee Frew* abbooiatios ] (Received 0.45 a.m., February 23rd.) THE KHEDIVE. Cairo, Feb. 22, 'fhe ferment is subsiding since the Khedive has shown a desire to maintain order, MUNICIPAL. London, Feb. 22. The Government will appoint a commission to suggest a scheme for the amalgamation of the city and greater London. COURSING. Betting on the Waterloo Cap is 4 to 1 against Colonel North’s Fullerton. MANIFESTO BY DR KANE. Dr Kane has Issued a manifesto, to the Orangemen and Loyalists in Ireland, claiming either the retention of the present nnioo with Great Britain or freedom to direct their own course 1 amongst the free people of the world. It adds that they should resist to the death any attempt to force a bastard combinar tion of the two. CHAIRMAN OF COMMITTEE. The Right Hon. J. W. Mellor, M.P. for Snwerby, has been elected Chairman of Committee in the House of Commons. OBITUARY. Mr John Pettie, Scotch artist, who was elected R.A. in 1873, in place of Sir Edwin Landseer, delate 54. (Special to Press Association.) (Received 7 p.m., Feb. 22nd.) IRELAND. London, Feb. 21. Professor Goldwin Smith has expressed the opinion that Ireland will remain a vassal to England, but eventually will become independent. A PRESS OPINION. The St. James' Gazette asserts that the payment' of members in the Victorian Parliament has utterly failed to secure representation of the masses. NEW LINE OF STEAMERS. Ottawa, Feb. 21. The Canadian Government have subsidised a line of steamers to trade to French ports.