CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 306, 28 November 1883, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

' Opening of the Calcutta Exhibit: onV p ' Warlike Preparatiqp. :" \ j; 3De LlsßepiJ Mission Satisfactory. Sale of the Garonne's Meat. The Colonial Loans. New Guinea Trading Company. The Spectator on the Australasias. The Suez CanalAnother French Outrage at Madagascar. (BY EtKCTRIO TBLE&RAPH.— COPYRIGHT.) (.nPECIAL TO UKITBD VB.BSS ASSOCIATION.) 'London, Nov. 25. - His Excellency the Marquis of Ripon, Viceroy of India, and H.R.H. the Duke of Connaught attended the opening of the Calcutta Exhibition. The sentence passed upon Warder Mason, who "fired at Guitea, has been remitted, and. a pardon granted. . ■ < There is great activity m Woolwich dockyard and arsenal just now. Count De Lesseps has returned, to France, professing himself well satisfied with the results of ! ' his mission' to England. ; The meat, ex the steamer Garonne,, 'has realised s|d per lb. A Cape loan ot five millions will, be placed upon the market next w«'ek, through the Bank of England. The prospects of the Victorian loan iii ■ January next appear to be favorable The New Zealand loan ■ conversion I scheme, -which closes this months is .considered a probable sue'etosp. I . , ... Captain Kcnnerly h'aWissued Jthrf. .prospectus of a small trading company to New Guinea. ; ■ ' T , Sir J ulius Yogel will combine with Hoyden yto work-th.tf vailwaj'cojiceaaionii m "Western Australia.: , . - The Spectator considers that the Imperial Government should permit the Australasian dominion to determine its own foreign policy" so long as that policy did not involve a European war. Mr George Morgan has beeni ap- ■ pointeda member of the Fiji Couiicil. '- Mr Gleydell, who has been appointed ' manager of the liondon -brandh of the Commercial Bank of Adelaide, is arranging 1 to commence operations m the city. At the wool sales to date 60,000 bales have been .catalogued and 7300 withdrawn. Home and foreign buyers are operating freely, and prices are firm. • ' " : Crossbreds maintain an advance of a halfpenny. : : Eight tnousand bales of the new clip have been 'passed:' The'Crowri Prince of Germany met with an exceedingly good reception- in Madnd. M., de Lesseps' says that he finds tiie' English merchants demand larger concessions m respect to the Suez Canal than he expected.. The commander 6f H.M.S. Dryad reports frdm Madagascar that the I'rench warshipSj without giving any notice, bombarded the unfortified town of Wohemiar. Five British subjects were amongst those killed m the outrage, and a large amount- of property belonging to neutrals was destroyed!