CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1706, 12 May 1886, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

; (ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. — COPYRIGET.) (SPECIAL TO UNITED PBESS ASSOCIATION.) London, May 10. The Executive Commissioners of the Colonies at the Exhibition will probably be created Knights of St Michael and St George, and the assistant Commis sioners and prominent Secretaries . Companions ofjthe same Order, . An impression prevails that France will join in the Krauel-Thurston agreement regarding the Western Pacific ■Islands, receiving the New Hebrides &8 her share. Australian visitors at Home are organising a grand Freemasons'' ball to beheld in June. Dr Ahearhe has had' an interview with Sir Robert Herbert, but , the Colonial Office has decided Dot to act until the petition asked for separation arrives from Queensland. Emigration of domestic servants to New South Wales has been stopped for the present. It is expected that Mr Gladstone will agree to redact the number of Irish members to forty-five. The fi rat steamer of the recently established German-Australian line will leave Bremen for Australia on July 14.

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(Per s s. Rotomahana, at the Bluff.) (united pbess association) London, April 29. It is announced that Shaw's team of English cricketers will leave Englaud for Australia in September next. The Standard in its yesterday's issue, makes some comments on the floating of the new loans, and censures the conduct of the South Australian Government for borrowing further at present. ' In the same article reference is also made to the borrowing of New Zealand. The Standard denounced Sir Julius Vogel, and expresses a hope that not another penny of British savings will be invested in N<*w Zealand.

Dr Moorehouse, speaking at. Kilburn, a suburb of London, denounced the secular system of education which is in force in most of the Australian colonies.