CABLE NEWS.

Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 104, 30 October 1888, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

PROPOSED NEW WARSHIPS. ASIATIC CONCESSIONS TO FRANCE. THE CHINESE QUESTION IN THE STATES. BT ELECTRIC TELZettWrH— COPYRIGHT. [UNITED PRESS ABSOCIATIWH.] London, 20fch OotoDbr. Tho Admiralty propose to build four new ironclads and. bix cruisers. ! Tim Byndio#te of the copper oompames hate oTffn'e'd to agreement extending the existing oon&ad %s for ten years. Seven hundfed tnbuEtod pounds in gold from outside markets ■Inrf Paris hate been shipped to Russia. 21st Oitober. The mission of Mr. H. M. Durand, t oVeignSecretary to the Government of India, W | Afghanistan, has been abandoned. I The Emperor of Annam has oeded to the Ffencn* tin provinoes of Hanoi, Haiphong, »ndT<Jn««f. The Earl oi Btrfteria has been oreated a ffarquis. &nd October. The beetroot manufacturers of J9Mo*jy have passed a resolution condemning %a Sugar Bounties Convention. Washington, 21st Ootober. Congress was prorogued to-day. A measure has been passed exolnding all Chinese labourers from the States, whether merely intending to pass through the country or otherwise. Latest Intelligence. & KBW AMBASSADOR. THE PROPOSED CANAPIAN-PACIFIC MAIL SEHT&E.THE ROYAL DIVORCE StfW. | UNITED PREBS ASSOCIATION. J (Reoeived October 30, 10 a.m;) London, 21st Ootober. Count Daym succeeds Const Karolyi as Ambassador of Außtria-Hungary in London. , It is understood that Cardinal Moron will be created an Irish Archbishop at the first vacancy; Calcutta, 22nd Ootober. The Ameer of Afghanistan is proceeding to tho district of TushkuryOn. (Reoeived Ootober 30, nooft.) London, 24th Ootojbarv . Tho Canadian Government is willing to' grant a subsidy of .£25,000 for a fortnightly Australian mail aervioe, and JJ15.000 for a monthly one. Mr. Ceoil Raikos, PostmasterGeneral, has expressed himself favourable to the delivery of mails at Vancouvor instead of at San Pranoißoo. Dr. Higgins, of Meath, who waß appointed coadjutor to Cardinal Moran, as Archbishop of Sydney, has been designated Bishop Antiphelless (unattacht d to any particular See). He will not, however, have the right of enccoedintr the Cardinal in the orent of death or removal. Mr. Stormont Darling has been appointed Solioitor-General of Sootland, in plaoe of Mr, J. P. B. Robertson, who beoamo Lord Advocate at tho beginning of the month. Belgrade, 24th October. Thoodosius, Metropolitan Archbishop of Servia, has officially annulled tho marriage of King Milan and Queen Natalie.