CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1701, 6 May 1886, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

(ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. — COPYRTGHT,) (SPECIAL TO UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) London, May 3. Obituary—Sir S. L. Leake, speaker of tho Legislative Council, Western Australia, from congestion of the liver. Mr Julian Thomas, " The Vagabond," has arrived here on a visit to the Exhibition. A delay which has occurred over the Indian Mail contract is likely to complicate the settlement of the Federal mail service. Mr B. C. Baker sails for Adelaide on the 6th, and therefore it is probable that any further parleying relative to postal authorities will he carried on by Sir Arthur Blyth, AgeutGeneral for South Australia. Dr Moorhouse will ba enthroned on the 18th inst. One hundred and fifty cases of Victorian fruit have been sold. The prices realised were— apples. 4d per pound ; pears, 3d each. The shipment of grapes are just saleable. The fruit from Soutli Australia has been finally displayed m the market attached, to the Indian and , Colonial Exhibition. t Fir Charles Dilke has addressed a I crowded meeting at Chelsea, at which he stated that he was prepared to deny on oath all the allegations made against him m the recent divorce case, and to defray the cost of the Queeu'a Proctor's intervention. M. Delyannis is ctill obdurate, and it is expected that the diplomatic representatives of the several Powers will embark to-day. The Turkish forceß are mutinously demauding that an advance on the Greeks should be made. (renter's telegrams.) London, May 3. The Australian mails per P. and 0. R.M.S. Rome, dated Melbourne, March 25th, and per Messageries-Maritimes, 8.8. Yarra, dated Narch 27th, were delivered here to-day, the former via Brindisi, and the latter via Marseilles. The wool market remains quiet m tone. c For the next colonial wool auctions 240,000 bales arrived to date.