LATE CABLE NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2306, 21 April 1887, Page 2

LATE CABLE NEWS.

[reuter's telegrams. 1 London, April 18. The Daily News advocates the establishment of a universal, penny postage. The Baron Nordenkjold, who proposed leading an expedition to the Antartic, hopes to start at Christmas. M. Flourens, the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, has opened the Astronomical Congress. The Protection versus Freetrade struggle, which has been going on in the Swedish districts, has resulted in a complete victory for the upholders of Freetrade. April 19. The Daily Telegraph announces the suspension of Messrs Mann and Stogdale. Australian merchants. The liabilities are estimated at from £80,000 to £100,000. The prospects of a favourable liquidation depend chiefly upon realising goods in Melbourne. It is announced that Lord Cadogan, Lord of the Privy Seal, and Mr C. T. Ritchie, President of the Local Government Board, have joined the Cabinet. The Australian mails, per Carthage, from Melbourne on the 11th March, were delivered to-day. The French press has resumed its furious onslaughts on England. Its charges comprise quite a variety of sins against the English nation. The Governor of Candahar states that he will be unable to attack the Ghilzais until he has been reinforced. News is to hand that the Peninsula and Oriental steamship Tasmania went ashore on Saturday night on the Manahi Rocks, off.the coast of Corsica. The women and children have been landed, but the rest of the passengers, numbering 200, remain on board. Assistance has been sent to the seen of the wreck. A Russian fleet of fifteen men-of-war is preparing for sea. A French journalist stabbed Marshal Bazame in the head, but the wound is not serious. The Mahdi offers to become tributary to the Ku,ltan provided the Soudan is allowed \p remanin independent of Egypt. San Francisco, April 18. j Arrived, at noon on Saturday: The | Mariposa, from Auckland.