CABLE NEWS.
NEW STE&.MERS FOR THE COLONIES. ; \ COLONIAL DEFENCES. DISTRESS IN LONDON. (BY ELKOTHIO TELEGRAPH.— COPYRIGHT.) (SPECIAL TO U&ITBD PRESS ASSOCIATION) - London, August 25. New South Wales has obtained six bronze metals and five honorable mentions for its exhibits m mining and metalltirgy at the AmsTerdam"Exhibition. Her Majesty the, Que fl a of. HoiEnd has visited the Australian pourts incognito". The trial trip of Howard, Smith, and Sons new steamer Grabo, at Kircaldy, averaged 1 1£ knots. A steamer, build ing for Mr John Hay,~of New Zealand, his been lau^checToh_ the Clyde. The Admiralty insists that submarine mines are an essential, part of the plan for Wricking the channels' of Australian har* bors for defence^ purposes. The l Victorian ' Government has ordered two bstceries of the new Armstrong field artillery ,_ jand. also heavy sjxxm >. 'for f f he^>fprts, "|td -protectrv/ Port p'liiiup: "•-"■ " — ■"" *' "" - ~mi^ 'undSrstooorthaF ArcEßishop ;^anghato?s body will be taken to Sydney . for interment. y p A remarkable article in /the Diritto Yarn's France toiibahddn" all colonial a<?venturs. ,-.- ■-, . ■ , ■" Sir Chas. 'Bilke has promised to inquira into the alleged distress m the East andjSoutb^f Lwojion, with a view to relief by emigration. ,A great convocation jpf the Irish Land lieague isvto be held at:Leed3 at^the end of September. • :;■': : > ■' .'.■:"•-.':. ±-m*Tui '.'OT^
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 227, 28 August 1883, Page 2
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209CABLE NEWS. Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 227, 28 August 1883, Page 2
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