CABLE NEWS.

Poverty Bay Independent, Volume I, Issue 80, 28 November 1885, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

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CAPTURE OF LANGSON. REVIVAL OF TRADE. THE FRENCH PRESIDENT. (own correspondent.) London, Nov. 24. The British Government have definitely decided to annex Burmah. The French Presidential election is fixed for the nth December. M. Jules Grevy is almost certain to be re-elet. ted. It is reported that the Premier of Canada will confer with the English postal authorities regarding the transmission of the English mails for Australia by the Canadian Pacific Railway, to connect with a fast line of steamers, as proposed by the Dominion Government. The firm of John Elder and Co., shipbuilders and engineers, Glasgow, has been converted into a company. The wool sales have been very firm during the last few days, with an upward tendency, crossbreds and greasy being a half-penny higher. The Prince of Wales, Grand Master of the English Freemasons, has granted a warrant for the establishment of an Empire Lodge. A banquet to colonial Masons in England will be held tonight in commemoration of the event. A rumour is current that King Alfonso of Spain is seriously ill, that he is in a dying condition, but so far no authentic foundation for the report has been discovered. There is an increasing opinion that a revival of trade, whieh has been so depressed lately, is imminent. The French troops in Tonquin, under General Braiks, have captured Langson. The Sportsman referring to the negotiations for an Australian eleven to visit England next year, thinks it would be better to postpone the vist until 1887? Madrid, Nov. 25. King Alfonso died to-day of dyssentery.