NEWS BY CABLE.

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 7355, 20 December 1884, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

BT ELEOTBIO TELBQBAPH,—OOPTEIOHT,

(BPBOIACi to dotted PBES3 association.)

SIMS REEVES YISIIS THE COLONIES. London, December 18. Mr Sims Eeeves, the celebrated tenor, has decided to visit Australia.

OMENTAL BANK CALLS

The Oriental Bank Corporation will make tha calls on European shareholders payable as follows ; —£lo in February, £5 in April and July, 1885, and £5 in January, 1886. Shareholders abroad will require to pay a call of £2O in July, 1885, and one of £5 in January, 1886. SUCCESSOR TO LORD LOFTUS, Earl Morley is mentioned as a probable successor to Lord Augustus Loftus as Governor of New South Wales,

(bedteb’s telegrams.)

London, December 18,

Arrived—Steamship Elderalie, from Port Chalmers (17th October), with a cargo of frozen mutton, which is believed to be in good condition.

A LAEGE EEWAED,

The Court of Common Council has voted a reward of £SOOO for information leading to the conviction of the perpetrators of the recent outrage on London Bridge. Dr Wordsworth, Bishop of Lincoln, has resigned his see owing to illhealth. SEIZURE OP DYNAMITE.

The authorities at Dover have seized two hundredweight of dynamite, which arrived there yesterday, on board a vessel from the Continent. CESSION TO GERMANY DENIED.

London, December 18.

The statement made by the Fall Mall Gazette yesterday as to the projected cession of Delagoa Bay to Germany is authoritatively denied, REPULSE OF THE CHINESE. Pams, December 18.

An official telegram from Tonquin, published to-day, announces that the French position at a village near Chu was recently attacked by three thousand Chinese. After severe fighting, the latter were repulsed with heavy loss. The French forces suffered but slightly. RECIPROCITY. Melbourne, December 19. Mr Berry, Chief Secretary, and Mr Langridge, Commissioner of Trade and Customs, proceed to Hobart next month to discuss with members of the Tasmanian Government the question of a reciprocal tariff between the two colonies. GERMANY AND NEW GUINEA. Sydney, December 19.

Intelligence has reached here that the German flag has been hoisted and a Protectorate established over the northern portion of New Guinea and the Islands of New Britain, New Ireland, New Hanover, and the Admiralty Group. Sailed, Wednesday afternoon Hauroto for Wellington. Sailed, yesterday afternoon, Ringarooma for Auckland. THE CLIFFORD-B EACH RACE LAPSED. In the sculling match which had been fixed for the 28th February, between Clifford and Beach, the latter has forfeited by mistake, and the match has been declared off. Another one is, however, being arranged.