Late Cable Messages.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 248, 21 September 1883, Page 2

Late Cable Messages.

! the colonial torpedo | ' / boats. ".,;.-.; i a satisfactory trial. THE, FEDERATION C.TJESTION.' I REFORMS iFtfrjßKtfY. (BY ELBtfTRIC TELEGRAPHi^-OOPYRIGHT. I ' (reuter's i TELEGRAMS.) i t! - ■ "•'. Sept l.'2o;- --' The testing of the 1, torpedo boats which nave J been built for ftie New Zealand c tbbk place at Greenwich ■■'to-day, The construction' pf the bba;ts 'is very favorably re» ported hp 6h f '■ and a high/rate bf speed was obtained ih the trial over, the measured mile. ' ' \ „'''.,- " ! v ' .Amsterdam, Sepiembbr' 19 . j At a meeting of the % Colonial Congress hildi in 'the -Exhibition building jtonday, Frederick Young, the Secrejtarjrr ofrthe— ©olontal :^l_stitul»-Hii»--.Loudon, m the course jbi an address, strongly urged the federation of themother country and the Australian polonies, and proposed the establishment of a common; Parliament, m which all parts of the empire might ba ade* quately represented; „ ; > •■ ■ ; Constantinople* September 19. I Telegrams to.;hand from Sofia state that Prince Alexanderof ßulgaria has issued a manifesto to the people declaring his renunciation of;i the extra* ordinary legislative . (unctions with Which he. was ., endowed ..« cin: Juiyj 1 1881 , by vote ,qf the, National Asseaibly, and announcing , the . restoration r, of j the r national charter h of liberfcyy andLiappqint. ment n qf a ,. Ministry pledged to support a liberal; fojwa^of, Government. '.'Hy.iwv &