CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 210, 10 August 1883, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

THE ANTI-JEWISH RIOT IN .RUSSIA. LAUNCHES OF VESSELS FOR AUSTRALIA. THE MAIL CONTRAT. THE TRANSPOjiJLA QONf OF THE liN FORMERS. GENERAL NEWS. (by electric telegra.ph.-copyright.) (router's telegrams London, August 8. Id th« anti-Jewish riots which took place at Ekaterinoslay, Southern Russia, last week, 100 persons were killed or wounded » The largest of the torpedo boats being | constructed for the Victorian Government will be launched at Cheswick on the 18th iast. Th« launch will be per~ formed by Mrs Childera. The Hunter Ri ver steamer Mawpi will he launched at Kingshorn. Mr Fawcett, Postmaster-General, has waived his objections to the Orient; mail contract, and sais that the final decision rests with the Government u of New South Wales. The Parnellites are irritated at the reception extended to the Messrs Redmond m Australia, especially m Sydney. The Spanish rising at Badajoz was an isolated adventure. The insurgents have been interned m Portugal. Earl Spencer, it is stated, possessed the protest from Victoria against the landing of the informers of the Phoenix Park murders a week before the Pathan sailed from London. Mv Murray Smith, i Agent-General tor Victoria, has now, m a vigorous despatch, urged upon Lord Derby the objections of the colonies against receiving criminals or connivers, and he also demands protection for the colonies against French transportation of criminals to the Pacific Islands. Tbe Irish officials npw state that they bamboozled the Colonial Office with regard to the transportation of the ia«» formers, and it is believed that Government had arranged to transfeip them elsewhere, . The Adelaide loan will not be placed m the market earlier than November. It is reported' that the Hop Bitters Uompany intend to give a handsooae irophy to be rowed for m Australian i waters by professionals. The obstinacy of the Ho vat) as caus» ! ing much nnaasiness, and m consequence the French troops have been rein* breed. The number of deaths from cholera among the British soldiers stationed m Egypt numbered 117 m a fortnight. . The House of Lords has carried the , second reading of the Tenant! Compensation Bill. The steamer Hankow, which was supposed to have been wrecked on the voyage between Lisbon and . Honolulu, has arrived safely at San Francisco. MacDermott, an American Feaian, has amvecLin Liverpool. It is mentioned that a conspiracy is afloat to murder the officials m Ireland.