LATE CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 255, 24 September 1884, Page 2

LATE CABLE NEWS.

(age specials. (united press ass'ciation.) London, Sept. 10. It is rep< rte'd that the British officials have removed the flagstaff and German flag which Dr Naohtigal, the African explorer, recently formally hoisted at Cameroon, the calling station of the African Steamship Company, on the west coast of Africa. The report has occasioned causiderable excitement. The French fleet under command of Admiral Conrlvtt is now coaling atJesso or Matsmai.onn of th« largest Japanese islands m which coal of jowl quality is m'ined'-and exported. The Chinese declaration of war against France 'is informal, as the Chinese Go- J vormneitt has neglected to inform the 'Great powers' of tho step which thoyhad : taken. '■,-.■■ Sept. 11. The Russian squadron m Chinese, waters has left Chef 00, a Chinese treaty port, opened for foreign trade m 1861, and it is believed that the vessels are to be employed as a menace to China. It is rumoured that Lord Carlinford will resign his position m the. Ministry as Lord President of the Council and Lord Privy Seal, and succeed the late Baron Ampt.ill as British Ambassador of Berlin. Sept. 12. Earl Bosebery, yesterday, addressed the Trades Congress at Aberdeen, and referred to the importance of Imperial federation. He also expressed bis astonishment at the fact that m Victoria, where trade unionism is so popular, and has been carried out so effectually, no attempt has been made to give it a legal status. ' . Sept. 15. A fund is now being raised towards the defence of the survivors af the yacht Mignonette, who are charged with killing and eating a boy named who accompanied tTlem jn the boat when the yacht was abandoned. The. Times this morning asserts that the Crowu has an undoubted right to all gold found m Victoria.