CABLEGRAMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1581, 12 January 1884, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

Heuter'b. Telegrams. by electric telegraph,—copyright, LONDON, ,-,■■-.•■ " ; X\ ;\±>- *.W. '■■-, January.!]).: : Eeceived January-11, : 2.20; p.m.— The intelligence "received on the "7th inst. that tli.e Malagaaiog had accepted the Frenoh. ultimatum and' agjreepj tp cede northern portion of Madagascar

is not yet confirmed;; Later news : states that France insists on the estab- i lishmenfcofa French protectorate over the .whole of the Island, and as the demand is 'objected to by the Malagasy Government matters are still unsettled. Tenders for the City of Auckland loan of .£IOO,OOO were opened today. The total amount offered was found to be £702,000. Tenders at 102 7/6 will receive fivo per cent of allotment, and tenders above that will receive in full. . MELBOUME, Friday, : It it understood that Messrs Symonds,Tenipletonand Professor Irving will constitute the new Public Service Board about to be appointed, and it is probable that Agg, Audit | Commissioner, will be one of the members of the Railway Board. LONDON, . - January 11. John Herd and his partner, of Liverpool, traders in corn on a largo scale, have become insolvent, and have been arrested on charges of fraudulent dealing. ■ Cardinal Manning, Archbishop of Westminster, is suffering from indisposition. Salvage operations are being actively pursued on board the stranded steamer Duke of Westminster. The vessel has not yet been floated. . \ HONGKONG, .. Jauuary 10.;, A forco of; 2000 Chinese troops is about to be despatched to Hainan as a corps of defence for the island against a possible attack by the French naval forces now stationed on the coast of Tonquin. SYDNEY, January 11. Received January 1.1, 9.55 p.m.— True bills have keen ibuiid against four of the seven prisoners who were arrested for the murder of Catherino Owens, at Waterloo, on December 26, MELBOURNE, Jauuary 11, . Arrived—Steamship Port Jackson, from London (November 10) f and this morning, the Union steamship Wairarapa, from the Bluff. ADELAIDE, January 11. Arrived, this morning—The Orient steamship Orient, from Plymouth (De> cembor 1). The statement that the. Marquis of Bute was among the passengers for Australia is incorrect,