CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 139, 19 May 1883, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

PICTURES FOR AUSTRALIA. THE GOVERNOR OF QUEENSLAND. THE MA.V WOOL SALES. THE REBELLION IS ZULTT- \ ■'■;'( LA.ND. EASTERN AFFAIR?. DISCOVERY OF AN INFERNAL MACHINE IN IRELAND. TREATY OF PEACE BETWEEN ; CHILI AND PERU. THE RISING IN AFGHANISTAN. (ELECTBIO TELEGRAPH. — COPYRIGHT.) ( SPKOIAX TO UNITED PEB3B ASSOCIATION. ) . :t. -London, May 17. De Leßßeps has puMish.d a statement to the effect that the present company would be prepared to construct a second canal through the Isthmus of Supz. i Joseph -Mullett and E. McCaffrey have been found guilty of participation m the -Phoenix Park murders, and sentenced to ten years' penal servitude. Thomas Doyle received a sentence of five years, and Edward O'Brieh, Win. JMarOnev, and ; Daniel Delaney, who pleaded; guilty., , have been sentenced to ten years' penal servitude. The Special Commission for the trial of the Phoenix P*rk prisoners has now closed. 1 ' ■'■ . H.M. gunboats Goshawk and Raven have been Ordered to prooeel to Australia,- to replace the schooners now on that station. The. Victorian Government has purchased a Hiehland landscape by H. W. B;! Davis, R*A. Two other pictures ; that were exhibited m the Royal I Academy have been purchased tor the Adelaide National Art Gallery. Sir Anthony M^grave* who recently accepted tbe Governorship of Queensland^ has left Jamaica. ; At the opening wool sale to»day ■prices realised for inferior and faulty I wools, were, rather lower than at the ;close*of last ''sales. Much faulty wool was offered Muring the day. Foreign } buyers *<*re operating more freely than I during, the February auctions. , Per Merchant: Shipping and .TJnder- ; writers' Association :— Arrived — Ships | Unicorn, from Oaraaru (January 31) ; Orari, from Wellington (January,; 31). Arrived at Plymouth— Orient steamship Iberia, from Mcl bourne ( April 4), The Usibupu, under Oham, have 1 given battle and _ defeated him, inflicting a loss of .six thousand, men. The reported death of the Count De Ch'ambor'd is incorrect. < The new constitution confers universal suffrage on the Egyptian population over twenty years of age. C . The Land Leaguers are dismayed at the Pope's circular. Mr Seeton, Mi P.;' contend 8 ; it does not apply to the laity. A Highland regiment is itow- m, garrison i&t Por ; b Said. ; ; ■The.AgentrGenerHl for Queensland, Mr Archer, m a letter to the Times, denies that the colony has any desire to enslave the Papuan inhabitants of New Guinea nnder any form of labor traffic, .:••■ i ■•"•'' An infernal machine has been dis* cowered at/Ballina, ,anl six. men have been arrested m connection with the discovery. .. . The Bultan promises reform m Armenia. : Intelligence is to band that a definite treaty of peace has b^en concluded between Peru and Chili. The former c-^des Tacna and Arica r for a period of tpn 'years, and at the expiration ofUhat time a plebiscite will be taken to decide whether the provinces nhsll be retained permanently by Chili. , Calcutta, May 16. • Intelligence is to hand from Gabul , announcing that further fighting has occurred between the Ameer's troops and thevAfghao rebel tribes. A desperate attempt was made by thoShinwarris, who were recently repulsed, to regain their loss, but they were again severely defeated, their loss, being estimated at fully 7.00, killed. The- tribes who have hitherto tefused to . give allegiance to the Ameer are now:_ten«dering their submission, and it is believed that the pacification ( 01, hi» kingdom will shortly be completed by the Ameer.