CAJBLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 23, 24 December 1883, Page 2

CAJBLE NEWS.

_ «~ The Victorian Fleet. The Soudan Rebels. Ismail PashaPlymouth Emigration DepotSalmon Ova for New Zealand. Rumored Floating of South Australian Loan Denied. Proposed Testimonial to Sir R. Tor* rens. Seamen's Strike. The New South Wabs Lean. (by BLEcraic telegraph- copyright.) (dOPEIAL TO UNITED VRR9B ASSOCIATION.) London, December 21. The Victorian fleet will make the passage to Australia, via Torres Straits. The Becoad-cla-33 torpedo boats will be ready to leave m March. The insurgents m Soudan are pressing on Sinkah and Talka, and it. is f ared that the capture of thoie towns jis imminent. . ■ , , The feeling m Cairo is greatly m favour of the return of Ismail Pasha as Khedive ot Egypt. The euquiiies made by Sir Dillon r>eu mco me statement 'made by the Oxford and other New Zealand emigrants as .to^the filthy condition of the Plymouth Depot, and its being unfit for the accommodation of modest and respectable people show that the complaints are uufounded. An experimental 'shipment of salmon ova from Florida, U.S., to New Zealand is to be made m January.^ Sir Arthur Blyth, Agent-General for South Australia, states that the repoi't that that colony contemplates/ anolhdr early loan is Entirely unauthorised, . The proposal to raise a testimonial to Sir Robert Torrens, M.P., m recognition of his efforts to simplify the transfer of land, has been somewhat coldly received. The sailors and firemen m the employ of the Messageries-Maritimes Odmpany, at Marseilles, hare struck. " n! The total amount subscribed for the Few South Wales loan has been ascertained to be £7,598,000. The number of tenders was 670. Those at £100 13s receive m full, those at £100 Is 6d will receive 96 per cent. Though the public subscribed £5,0,00,000, Only ' forty of their tenders were accepted.