LATE GABLE NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2167, 29 May 1886, Page 2

LATE GABLE NEWS.

London, May 25. The infant heir to the Spanish throne has been christened Alphonso. Don Carlos has issuad a manifesto to the effect that he will not renounce his right to the throne. Lord C. Beresford admits that it will not be possible to coerce Ulster. Mr Gladstone has called a meeting of the Liberal party for to-morrow, when it w expected he will announce that a compromise has been arrived at in order to meet the dissentient views of some members of his party. The betrothal of Prince Oscar of Sweden to Princess Louise, daughter of the Prince of Wales, has been arranged. The organ built for the Bathurst Cathedral has been tested, and is a great success. The rate for the parcel post of Australia will b% for the first pound, 2s ; for every subsequent pound, Is ; of which England will receive 3d, the conveying companies 4d, and the colonies sd. Sir Julius Vogel has stopped the extension of this service to New Zealand The Australian tenm'will be entertained at a banquet by the Oxford Eleven. Messrs. Shaw, Savill, and Albion's Co's ship Wellington, from Lyttelton, March 9, arrived yesterday morning with her cargo of froaen meat in good order. Rio de Jaxeiuo, May 26. The steamer Coptic left here yesterday morning for Plymouth, with her frozen meat cargo in good condition.