ENGLISH AND FOREIGN CABLE.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 3427, 22 September 1885, Page 2

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN CABLE.

(Peu Electric! Telegraph— Copyright.) (Reuter's Aoknoy.) |R«ooivodl2.ls p.m., Sopt. 215t.l Paws, Sapt. 20. Advices from Admiral Miot, commanding the Fionch forces iv Malagasy waters, state that tho troops under his command recently made » reconnaissance at Hova, a position m Taragal, Madagascar, but wore attacked by tho enemy, and repulsed with considerable loss. London, Sept. 20. Owing to Ihe action of the Egyptian Sanitary Board imposing quarantine on vessels arriving from the East, Lord John Manners, the British Postmaster-General, libb consented to a diversion of the Brindisi mail to the Suez Can&l route, outward aud homeward. Tho Peninsula and Oriental Steam Navigation Company have made arrangements whereby their vessels will av<id touching at Egyptian ports, and m: ils and pnssengers riu Brindisi will pass through the Canal instead of via Alexandria, thus avoiding the detention and annoyance attending upon quarantine. 7000 bales catalogued ftt to-day's wool sales, the demand being steady but not active. Capetown, Sept. 19. The New Zealmd Shipping Compiuy'i

R.M.S. Aorangi, lefl last night for New Zealand. (Special to the Press Association.) (Received 1 p.m., Sept. 21st.) London, Sept. 20. The contracts which wore entered into by the Admiralty with several Steamship Companies for tho use of Bomo of their vessels as armed cruisers will not be renewed. Mr Gladstone, m his manifesto to the electors of Midlothian, referring to the reform of the House of Lords, expresses the opinion that, the time, is yet distant when it can be effected, and urgos that it is necessary to recognise the influerco of birth and wealth. He advocates an easy system of land transfer, and that the power to will should be limited to the next life only. The question of disestablishing the Church of England is not, he holds, yet ripe for action to ho taken. The Marqnis of Hartingtcn mid the Right Hon. Air Chamberlain diilor considerably with tho views expressed, but Mr Gladstone, if anything, leans towards Lord Hnrtington*3 opinion. Thero is no frtshncss m tlie foreign policy advocated, except m the matter of the Afghan difficulty. Tho manifesto is generally considered a moderate one, and not at all calculated to arouse any enthusiasm among the Radical party.