CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1808, 17 March 1886, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

BUHMESK ABUT ADVANCING ON MANDALAY. SINKING OF A CUNABD STEAMER. DEATH OF GENERAL CHUTE. Lohook, March 14. It is reported that 13,000 Burmese «r advancing on Mandalay, and British rein lores meets base been ordered to that city. The Emperor of Germany, Prince Bismarck. and Mr Gladstone, whs bare been indisposed, are now better. Ibe creditors in the Commercial Bank o Booth Australia bare lodged a petition praying that the affairs of the Sank may be wound up. Sir Charles Warren, O.C M G., has been appointed Chief Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, in succession to Sir Edmund Hander son.

March 15. Tba Canard steamer Oregon, 7500 tens, has been took through collision. Obituary—General Sir Trevor Chute, E.CB., sgtd Cl years. Thera are fifty one thonsand men ont on •trike in America.

The Sportsman propria ton n-oflsr their Challenge Cnp to be rowed for by the great oarsmen of the world.

The Earl of Boseberry, Secretary of State for Foreign Affaira, has iastructed Sir Henry Drummond Wolf, Special Commiscioner in Egypt, that the British army of occupation will shortly be reduced by six regiments, end has iafosmsd him that Her Majesty's Government propose to withdraw (be British focee to Assouan as the farthest somberly owl post, while Egyptian troops will protect the frontier as far as Wada Haifa. Moukhtar Pasha, the Turkish Cominis■wner, hesitates to ament to these proposals, ea the withdrawal of the British forces will entail large reinfareamenta of the Egyptian army.

Tba hostile Arabs in the vicinity of Snakim are renewiag their activity. A body of W*wdly Natives, who wwe out foraging, were attacked near Haabeen. They made a determined stand, however, and rooted the rebels, killing thirty of their number. Cano, March IS. It is announced that the French Govern* meat ere about to raiae a loan of a milliard franea, with a view to the partial conversion of the floating debt of the country. CoxmxnsarLa, March 111. The Saltan aod King Milan of Servia have mutually ratified the agreement providing (or a settlement of the Balkan difficulty.