LATE CABLE NEWS. [PRESS ASSOCIATION.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2228, 19 October 1886, Page 3

LATE CABLE NEWS. [PRESS ASSOCIATION.

London, October l."». The Standard, in .an article r'-fernne to New Zealand, censures the Bank of England for propping up a .spendthrift colony. The Timber Trades Journal states that from e\pe,t nnents made it has been shown tluitcoloni.il woods will .suit the English market, and aie especially suitable for the in tnuf.icbme of furniture. The Time* 1 , referrnm to the tweeds from New Souch \V'ale> exhibited at the Exhibit on, considers that they compare with the best English manufacture*. The Spoit.stnan states that Bench lu.s resolved tn lPtirts from .icjuatic contest", either at home or abroad. October 10. By an inund ition at Texas 200 persons have been drowned. Geim. my, in replying to Franco, says the latter has no cause to demand Hie date of the English evacuation of Egypt. The Duke of Manchester, Karl Car narvon, and Kail Dunraven will attend the banquet to be given to .Sir Anthony Musgrove. Sransky, a Bulgarian Envoy, has been authorised to arrange a treaty of alliance with Servia. The Oxford has arrived with a cargo of wheat. F<>r shipments, e\ s>lnp, 33s is ottered. Thoie his been abundant ram lately. It is considered probable that 121,000 bales of wool will be available for the Norember seiios. The New Zealand 4 per cent, inscribed stock to day is quoted at £!)7, a decline of £1. Mr Joseph BoM-to (president), and Mr Janvjs Thomson (secretary of the Victorian Executive Commission of the Indian and Colonial Exhibition), will be enteitained at a banquet before returning to Australia. The Berlin Bourse distrusts Russian securities, and many have been thrown on the market. The Russians declare that England is the cause of the distrust. The Journal de-> Debats admits that France has no right to establish a settlement in the New Hebiides, and asserts that their present action is a matter of policy. A series of heavy gale", accompanied by Hood*, have occuned in England. Shipvvreck.s, resulting in loss of life, ha\e oecntied on the coast.

[KhrTKU's TKIKCRVM.] Yir.w \, October 17. Lord Rand -lph Churchill, who has for some time Iffii mi a vw,it to this city, left for Paris to-day. Orr\\\ \. October 17. The Quebec provmcuil elections ies\ilted in a victory for the French party. Madkid, Octoboi lfi. The state of siege declared here last month, at the time of the Republic outbreak, ban now been raised.

Rro i)K Janeiro, October l."i. Shaw, Sa\ille, and Albion Coirpany's s.s. Cootie, From Lyttleton on September 21, left lieie yesterday morning for Plynjoutl). The co.« go of meat is in good condition. The New Zealand Shipping company'Rinmtaka, from Lyttleton on 2lsrd September, arrived yesterday evening. The cvrgi) of me.it is in good condition. Cu'ki'own, Octoher l.">. The New Realand Shipping Company's Tongariio left here this afternoon for New Zealand.