CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 34, 9 January 1884, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

Trial of 'Australian Gunboats

A Tenian Plot. -

A^NihilhfrPlot. t .

Egyptian AfFaira.

London, January 4. . - The guns on board the- Victorian gunboats Albert and Victoria were tested at Newcastle yesterday with ex~ceH«rrmeeSultsr The Imltoolv pKeein' presence of a large number of old colonists. It is gazetted that Judge Stone' (t btonor, of Soul hwark) 'has been ap|>ointed,.Cl)ief Justice, of "Western Australia. ¥■ - ~ • ■ ■'■>'*-' ■■' -: ' ■/ < The strike at Marseilles has ended, the employes having returned to their work. It being feared that a Fenian plot i.* being organised Wde3troyJhe Midland' Railway, extra precautions have been -taken;* . •■;'. ••. \>- ■:■ , . : , > itr :. .,-i Humors are afloat that the Nihilists are again active, and that several at-; tempts have been inside on -the- life of-, the Czar. , . The Veport that Jabloiis, leader of the plot at Sudeikin, had beei*-»r--rested.ia W yet. unconfirmed.' >>. „■ ■' j The Daily News says that it is impossible that Fiance and England' can combine together to intervene with regard to Egypt. The .lending,newspapers state that the bulk of'pubHV opinion is that England should . be^he sole dictator ' of the defence of ; %y|t -proper, anchriso that it "should be UaF~ ried out with Aflgjo-I^diali 'fobhufi Baker Paslia* ii- eadeavbrtngW ar~ rsinge for a withdrawal .of the troops from Khartoum a'tul t\x€ 6fs^abHfinniencof a garrison m Abyssinia. • -^conornist, commenting ' upon the Tariff Comjuis^ion, agrees that protection has tailed to make Victoria a nation for artisans. -r -„-,. . Forty-four shillings and sixpence vf 'dtferi'd for cargoes of Australian wheat, '^»ut there is no recent business. New' Zealand wheat i<s a shade. lower than, last quotations. '"' J ';,' '''.""'