CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1791, 5 February 1886, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

TUE VICTORIAN LOAN. TENDERS FOR WELLINGTON HARBOR BOARD LOAN. THE NEW ENGLISH CABINET. London, February 2. The Daily News this morning announces the follow, in; »s the persons! of the new Ministry Mr. Olac 1 - sicne, Premier an t Chancellor of the Exchequer ; Sir VV nliara Vernon Harcuurt, Horae Secretary ; Sir John Farrar Hersehell Lord High Chancellor; Viscount Hampden,Lor.l Privy Seal; Mr Childers, Secretary fort War; Mr Chamberlain, First Lord of the Admiralty : Mr Mundella, President of the Board of Trade ; and Mr John Morler, Chief Secretary for Ireland. It is added that probab'y Earl Spencer will be aj pointed Viceroy of India, and that Lord Kimberley will -.I to the Foreign Office, Lord Koaehery take the Colonial Secretaryship, and Lord Granville be made L* rd President of the Council. Tenders were opened for the W'ellington Harbor Board b an of 1:50,000 at f ( per cent., the minimum for which w as The whole amount was subscribed, tender-rs at Alod ids receiving 56 per cent, of their application; above that in full. Iho colonial Agents-General waited upon Colonel Stanley, Secretary lor the Colonies, to-day, to bid him tarewell on his resignation. In returning thanks to il.eni, Colonel Stanley stated that attains in New Guinea remained at a standstill until the difficulty wnb regard *o providing fuuds for the administration "I ’he country wua settled. Personally, he Expressed hnn-elt m tavor ofthe government of the protected territory being undertaken by some single colony in connection with England. Six hundred and forty tenders were received for the Victorian loan, covering A 10,826,000 Tenderers at t!O6 Ss fd will receive 22 per cent. Four millions and three-quarters were offered at that price. Mi Parnell insists that legislative measures for granting Home Rule aud for the settlement of the laud question m Ireland shall he promoted together February 3. The statement that her M-nasty the Queen had earnmoued Earl Granville to Osborne has not been confirmed, and is believed to be inaccurate. Mr Chamberlain hj is declined the portfolio of First Lord of the Admiralty. It is currently reported Ibat the Earl of Nt rtb’iock w;U be appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. but the tumor kefs official confirmation. Mi i finders will prnbsbiv bejlhe new Secretary of etc l<r tbe Cnlonie- Mr Glinmberlain desires to be ’ nsru ellor ofthe Exchequer, aud demands the leadersnip in Mr Gladstone's absence