SECOND EDITION

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 24, 27 December 1883, Page 3

SECOND EDITION

♦ CABLE NEWS. Dissension m. SoaakimThe Lawes Sculpture Case.The Health. Exhibition Conference, The French Seamen's Strike. Lord Derby on New Guinea Land ' Speculators. Sir H. Parkes Advocates an Australasian CouncilCommercial.. (BY *tß6raiO TISLEGKAra -COPYHIOHT.) (special to unitSdt?bbss association.) v t TioirpoN, Dec. 22. Dissensions are reported the tribes along the Souakira-Berber route. Mr Lawes haying declined, to ; agree to the proposed reduction of damages awarded to Mr Belt, the appeal for a new trial will go onv i ; . :>'=,.. Mr Howard Spcnsely, and Mr Dixonof Victoria, and Sir Julius Yogel have been appointed Comniissioners of the Health Exhibition Conference. The Messageries Maritimes is engaging foreign seamen to replace the striker*. ; V - • Abyssinian troops are menacing Massowah. M . A politicalorisis is imminent m Spain. Lord Devby has declared that if speculators attempt to purchase large tracts of land m New ( Juinea at nominal pricea England will refuse to recognise the transaction*. _ Sir Henry- Parkes, m the Century/ advocates the formation of an. Australa^ Bittn Council, sitting m London, and empoweved to transact political business on behalf of the col-nies, and to advise the Imperial Government m regard to all foreign relations affecting the colonies. , Australian -wheat quotations are unchanged. " „.., . The New South Wales loan w now at one per cent premium. . „ . . The Standard thinfts the present danger to the colonies is excessive borrowing.