CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 81, 4 March 1884, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

The Electoral Reform Jlill. Commercial. ; General News. (by elbctrio telegraph -copyright.) (special to united prkss association.) London, March 1. -r General Gordon, as Governor of Soudan, has issued a proclamation stating he has summoned British troops to Khartoum to punish the rebels. It has been ascertained that some defect m the clockwork of the infernal 'machines, found at the Paddington and Charing Cross Stations had prevented their going off as intended. i^The new. Electoral Reform Bill will, it is estimated, <jreace' two millions of additional voters, and. , Mr Gladstone : suggests tha'fr additional Representation -m the shape of a limited increase m the numbe'ilof /memDets)lh/thl HimfceT of Conirfiotisi 4hould/j&e granted. He is not, liow«».ver, iavorable to any reduction m the number of Irish members. T . ( . The rail way system is to ! J be exterideci tci'Quetta. ■■ ■■. The National Review has published Mr Parsons* article on the northern territory. The European powers have agreed to accept a .convention for the protection of submarine cables. ".'',.. ' Mr Murray Smith, for Victoria, proceeds to Paris on Weduesilay, to inspect the. 'Decottrille Railway. Cargoes of Australian wheat, to arrive m and March r 'have been sold at 40s to 41s. Tine wool catalogue contains one hundred, and eight thousand bales. Competition is ' good, bat. Merir.oes are easy. Crossbreds are firm.