LATE CABLE NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2195, 3 August 1886, Page 2

LATE CABLE NEWS.

iHKUTERS TELEGRAMS.] London, July 30. A commercial exchange has been opened at the Exhibition, with Mr P. Cott, of Adelaide, :v8 chairman, and a committee, consisting of Messrs Thomson, Hart, and Simmonds. The Anglo-Spanish treaty has receired the Royal assent. Mr Leslie White has been appointed Belgian Consul at Adelaide. The parents of the girl Eliza Arraatrong, who was connected with the recent abduction cases, have entered an action against the proprietors of the Pall Mall Gazette, claiming £$000 damages. The meat ex the steamer Orient is beinff sold at 4}d. Mr \\ .irdell, the secretary of the Australian cricketing team, has offered to Sh»w the use of the Melbourne cricket ground free if he will postpone the visit of his team to Australia, and will also undertake to engage a part of the team. It is announced that Sir Thomas Brawey and Sir Michael Bass have been raised to the peerage. The Australian Agents-General have had under consideration the recent assurance* of the French Government regarding the New Hebrides., and it is understood generally have agreed that the same are of m completely .satisfactory chaiacter. A l.wgrf party of colonists paid a visit to Canterbury, where the were entertained at lunch by the Mayor. A number of tha \ isitors wete subsequently received at tht Cathedral by the Archbishop, while Another paity pioceeded to Chatham to inspect th» fort locations. The Australian cricketers were entertained .it a banquet last iii^ht by Mr Danger, of Sydney. S( ott. the captain of the tram, in responding to the toast of tha evening, admitted th it liis team was unequal t.» tho How t-t of ICngland ■> cricketers. Lord Hat i is. u ho -^pol^e dm 1112 the evening, attiibuttvl the small -uca^ of the visitor* to the accident winch Spofforth had received to his h md. The death is announcpd of the Abba Franz Lis/.t, the celebrated Hungarian piam.st, aged 7-"> yeirs.