TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Independent, Volume I, Issue 53, 24 September 1885, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

CABLE NEWS. (own correspondent.) London, Sept. 19. At the wool sales the demand is steady but not active. September 21. The contracts entered into by the Admiralty with several steamship companies for the use of their vessels as armed cruisers, will not be renewed. Mr Gladstone, in a manifesto to the electors of Midlothian, referring to the reform of the House of Lords expresses an opinion that the time . is yet distant when it can be expected, and urges that it is necessary to recognise the influence of birth and wealth. He advocates an easy system of land transfer, and that power to will lands be limited to the next life only. The question of disestablishing the Church of England is not, he holds, yet ripe for action. He exhibits no firmness in the forjign policy which he advocates, except regarding the Afghan difficulty. The manifesto is not at all calculated to arouse enthusiasm among the Radical party. The French Government are favorable to the Pacific Conference, but Spain opposes unless all rights are respected.

September 22. Spain is now landing troops throughout the Caroline group for their protection.

France has conceded great rights to Burmali in connection with the commercial treaty existing between them. Paris, Sept. 20. Advices from Admiral Moir, commanding the French forces, state that the troops under his command made a recounaißance of the Hova position at Tarafal, in Madagascar, but were attacked by the enemy and repulsed with considerable loss, ’