LATE CABLE NEWS. [REUTER'S TELEGRAMS]

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2217, 23 September 1886, Page 2

LATE CABLE NEWS. [REUTERS TELEGRAMS]

London, September 20. A despatch has been received at the Foreign Office from the French Government stating that France has no intention of seizing the New Hebrides, and that the landing of troops in those islands was merely for the purpose of protecting French subject!". The despatch deprecates the excitement which has been caused in England by the French action in the New Hebrides, and the acrimonious tone of the English Press in discussing the subject. Shaw'rt team is regarded as the strongest batting and bowling team that has ever visited Australia. Beach sails for Australia on the 14th October. He offers to row Hanlan f»r a thousand or eight hundred pounds, the race to be rowed on the Parramattn. Mr Gladstone has received a memorial approving of the Home Rule scheme, signed by 10,000 colonists ; and also one of a similar character from the Federated Seamen's Union, and from the Democratic Alliance of Sydney. The ex-Premier is highly gratified at the wise and liberal sentiments expressed in these memorials. Mr Gladstone arrived in London to-day from Bavaria. Buda-Pesth, September 21. Cholera has broken out in this city. Some deaths are already reported.