CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1902, 15 November 1886, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

London, November 11. Parliament will probably meat on 20th January.

Sir James Bacon, Vice Chancellor of England, has retired from that position. The Doke of Connaught has been appointed Commander-in-Chief in Bombay. There are grounds for thinking that France, in exchange for the New Hebrides, is now prepared to cede Rape, with equal commercial freedom in the Pacific, and cessation of oonviotism. France will also arrange with Germany and England all other questions. If these terms are not accepted it is unlikely that France will withdraw from the New Hebrides.

The London press applauds the utterances of the Maiquis of Salisbury at the Lord Mayor’s banquet. The foreign press, notably Austrian news* papers, express approval of Lord Salisbury’s speech at the Gmdhall banquet. The Russian journals, however, do not publish it. The Exhibition was closed today amid great enthusiasm, thousands singing the National Anthem. The Exhibition grounds were specially illuminated daring the evening.

During the time the Exhibition bae been open it has been visited by five and a hall millions of people. It ie considered certain that it will be re* opened in Jane on a grander scale. October 81.

Russia has, bv a secret design, obtained one of the Brennan torpedoes, and her naval and military authorities are now busily engaged in making ezpeiimcjts w. b the weapon off the naval station of Cronstadt.

November 12. The frozen meat by the Iberia from Sydney realised 3JU per lb. lue statement that the Claimant bad been arrested in New York tn perao tion turns out to be incorrect.

Bishop Moorhou -■ is o'.iongty opposing free education. The death is a 'ounced of M. Paul Bart, the French statesman.

Rome, November 11. ' Destructive floods have occurred in Northern Italy and in tbe South of France. Storey, November 12.

New Zealand wheat ie selling at da 2d per bushel; New Zealand oats, 2s 2d; maize, per 661b, 3s 2d.

Adelaide, November II

Favorable reports continue to be motived from Teetupla, where the population is too large, however, to find employment on the goldfields. The diggers refuse to give any information as to their earniqgs.