CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 74, 20 February 1883, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

THE WOOL SALES. > THP ENGLISH PARLIAMENT. - THE ADDRESS IN RSMiY. NIHILISM RAMPANT. iSIR A. QOEDON ON THE PLATi *• FORM] BRADLAUGH'S RIOTOUS MOB. (BY ELS.OTBIO TELEGRAPH.— COTYBIGHT.) (SPECIAL TO UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION".) London, Feb. 17. The House of Lords have agreed to the Add ress-in r ßeply to the Speech from the Throne; ~ -■-■■■ Sir Wilfred Lawson, m the Honse of Commons,' moved an amendment censuring tho occupation of .Egypt by an I armed force. In reply, the Secretary - f for War mentioned that the troops would probably be retained for six months, and excepting France, all the Powers nave approved and recognized Earl Dufferin's scheme for the control of EgyDt. - Mr Wilfred Lawson's amendment on the Address was negatived, as was also another amendment moved by Mr Balfour censuring the Government for not having avoided, war- m its conduct of Egyptian affairs'.' This was 'nega--tive on a division by a majority of 30. The mob of Mr Bradlaugh's supporters assailed Mr Ashmead-Bartlett, the member for Eye. The Nihilists are reported as being very active m. Geneva, Paris; and London. Sir Arthur Gordon, m a lecture -at Edinburgh, eulogised the loyalty., of Cakobau,. and condemned the attempts of the missionaries and Government to Anglicise the natives of Tonga. . - _, The wool . cargoes of the Orontea, Ganges, and Aberdeen are m time for the sales, but the Kennion is late. Wools arriving after the 15th will be excluded from the r iiext sales. Two hundred and ninety-six thousand bales are already available.