NEWS BY CABLE.

Manawatu Herald, 21 January 1881, Page 3

NEWS BY CABLE.

) (reuter's telegrams). London, January 17. Owing to large quantities of floating ice on the Thames, the race between Hanlou and Laycock could not take place today. Mr Gladstone has recovered from the cold from which he was recently .suffering. The Rev. T. P. Dale and the Key. Mr Enraght, the Ritualistic clergymen who were imprisoned for contempt of orders of the Court of Arches,- have been discharged from custody, it having been found that the writs under which they were arrested were defective. Further news to hand from Central Asia states that the Turcomans recently made an unsuccessful sortie . from Geok Tepe, being heavily repulsed by the Russians, who then stormed the outworks. The conflict was most sanguinary, and resulted in heavy loss to both sides. ' v It has been arranged that the scull%^ing match between Hanlon and La} r- ' cock shall, the state of the river i permitting, take place on Saturday afternoon iioxt, the 22nd instant. Constantinople, January 17. The Porte has sent a circular nofc^ to its representatives abroad, request-* ing them to propose to the Powers that the latter should send delegates - .to a conference at Stambonl to no- . gatiate for a settlement of the Greek f frontier question. The Porte desires that the conference should be held in • liou of the arbitration as proposed by the Powers. ' Sydney, January 18. The Intercolonial Conference toj day adopted resolutions that a request ' fthould be sent to the Imperial authorities that the number of vessels of the navy in Australian waters Bhould be increased. A resolution of the Hon. '.W. Morgan, Chief Secretary of South >* Australia, in favor ni a uniform tariff . for the colonies, based on that of New • South Wales, was brought forward, but at the instance of Mr Berry its ' discussion was adjourned until the rest of the programme is disposed of. ' A scheme for the regulation of Chi-, j nese immigration, proposed by the Western Australian delegates, also occupied the attention of the Conference, but no definite resolution on the subject was adopted. Melbourne, January 18. The following Exhibition awards are announced : — Second prizes— WiUiarn Foster, Christchurch, for life-saving vest; Lyttelton Harbor , Board, for model of Lytteltou Harbor, showing works and improvements; Thomas Thomson, of Bluff, . for models of ships' compasses, anchors, &c. ; Piers Eliot Warburton, of Palmcrstou North, for canvas boat. Third prizes — John Blacketfc, Wellington, for lighthouse chart ; Thomas George, Dunedin, for plans and soundings of Otago Harbor; Thomas Hargraves, Nelson, for model wave-power engine; Captain Holliday, Wellington , for plan of Wellington Harbor ; G . H. Luxford, Wellington, model of Maori canoe ; William M'Lennan, Dunedm, working model of boat, with propeller, John Way mouth, Auckland, for models of yachts.