CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 76, 28 February 1884, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

— . ♦ . Return of Sir Julius Vogel. Sir H. Parkes at Glasgow. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRA.PH.-COFYRIGHT) (SPECIAL TO UNITED PBEBS ASSOCIATION.) London, February 25. Sir Julius Vogel will leave for New Zealand in the Tongariro. Sir Arthur Blythd denies that lie has any intention of standing- for Falmouth at the next general election.as has been reported. Sir Henry Parkes, speaking at Glasgow, said that Now South Wales would be able to render valuable assistance to the Mother Country in the event of war. February 26. : Obituary.— Mil her Gibson. (r bitter's .telegrams) The Hon. Sir H. B. W. Brand, exspeaker of the House of Commons, Has been raised to the peerage under the title of Viscount Hampden. Obituary. — Right Hon. Thomas Milner Gibson, formerly a well knowß political member of the Palmerston and Russell Administrations 1855-1865. Aged'7?."' , : The consignment of frozen mutton (6548 carcases) ex steamship Siberia from Sydney has been examined an,d; found in good condition. • In the House of Commons to-day A. W* Pell, Liberal M.P. for Warwick,, was elected unopposed as Speaker. Credit for half a million sterling to cover the expenses of the British expe? dition to Soudan will shortly be asked for by the Government in the House of Commons. .