CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 6624, 16 February 1900, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

[By Electric Telegraph — Copyright]^ (Per Press Association) . A|NEW ZEALAND LOAN. London, February 14. The New Zealand Government has floated £800,000 worth of 4 peif cent Treasury bills, with a currency of two years. The average amount offered was about £100 7s 6d. EESULT OF A BY-ELECTION. At the election for a representatiye in the House of Commons for the Rossendale Division of Lancashire, the Liberal candidate, Mr Mather, was returned by a. majority of 1372 votes. STOBM IN ENGLAND. ' A severe biizzard is raging in England, and has caused great damage to telegraph lines, besides blocking the railways. THE CYANIDE PROCESS. Melbourne, February 15. The Government intends to Jake over all existing cyanide agreements in the colony. The report of the Audit Commissioners gives the.total debt of Victoria funded and unfunded to Ist July last as £48,808,000. [A FOOLISH PRANK. Adelaide, February 15. Mr Copley, a member of the Legislative Assembly, and Mr Guthrie, a Labour member, hauled down the Union Jack, bearing the emblems of the colony, at Government House, on the ground that the Queen's regulations only permitted the flag to be flown when the Governor was on a ship. The private secretary of the Governor found it necessary to invoke the assistance ot the police through the Hon Mr Jenkins. Chief Secretary.