CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 203, 3 August 1883, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

FEOZEN MEAT. DISTINGUISHED VISITORS; XA # CAREYS ASSASSINATION. INTENSE EXCITEMENT AT HOME. "■"." THE GREAT EARTHQUAKE, ■ . •^xEEGOyfiRY OF THE BODIES. '2 n -' ;T^ SEVERAL NEWS. ■:■■ ] ;■ NEW CRICKET RULES. (special to panes assccimion;) , , .. _ London, July 31. :>.• Tfie frozen me«yt by the steamrr John -Elder is selliog at 6d per lb. The •^avcasses of mutton nre smali and inferior to previous shipmorits. In a letter -ib Ihe Fortnightly Eeview, Sir Yogel advises Loid Derby to arrange for colonial contrißntionß before, annexing New Guinea. • Forty applicaticns have been received ,. for the position of Profo?Bor of Mather roatics at Auckland University. The appointment lias not yet been made. .The Earl and CoanteßS of Kosebery "^ill shortly visit A usiralia . The £200,000 worth oi debentures offered by the Austmlian and i^ew: ), Zealand Mortgage Company (Limited) iaveVnot been covered. At TuUin, men and women danced .round bonfires m celebration of the in--former Car* j's death. The newspaper -ofikefl were ihronged with an excited crow^ when the news was recdved, and great entLtfeiasm manifeste 1 . ; At Ischia, 1000 bodies have been taken ;frcm among the rnins. The Committee of the Marjlebor.e, OricfeetlClab have ir*^'qitested the opinion of dhe Viftoriati ar.d New Fonth Wales Clnfe's-iUpGD^ a draft of amended rales for cricket, which the former nave just tubfashed. ----•■ . . „ JL dangerous Nihilist -conspiracy is to . jortea from^t. Fetersburff, and many iafr^ais have been made m connection