CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 271, 13 October 1884, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

( LEttTRIJ TEt-EGKvPH.— COfYRIOUT.) (SPROfAI TO ONITKD Pltl-'SS ASSOCIATION.) London, Oct. 9. The Chinese have been defeated at Loochung by the French. Their loss is estimated at 1000, while that of the French was only twenty--five. ■■•-. ■ ■ ■ ■"" **«»-.'w>v«» The Standard explains that the redistribution scheme published by ' them is only one^of-savCTal^hat is at present 'before the Cabinet. TheJFrench authorities are boarding English merchant steamers both at Amoy and Formosa. Commodore Erskine has been instructed to proclaim a British Protectorate over the southern shores of New Guinea and the islands immediately adjacent. This ? stqf has been taken m accordance, with Mr Gladstone's reply to, the question asked on the subject by Sir- Win. Macarthur m the House of Commons on the 1 1 th of August last. The Willawie Pastoral Company of Adelaide has teen projected with a capital of half a million. ; The Tongariro has arrived, with her meat m splendid condition. Oct. 10. Prime New Zealand; mutton is realising 6|d per lb. „. It is currently reported that a conference, oh matters relating to the Congo will be held^ m Berlin m November. Commander Hamilton, of H.M.S. Hercules, has been appointed to the command of . H.M.S, Nelson.

Rome, Oct. 9. A cyclone of unusual force passed over the island of} Sicily yesterday,, and did an enormous amount of damage. Its effects were felt most severely- at Catania, a town on the east coast, and hundreds of the inhabitants were killed and wounded.

. . Hongkong, Oct. 10. Later intelligence from Formosa shows that the report of the occupation of Tamsui by Admiral 1 Les^es was incorrect. .The town is still m possession of the Chinese troops, and the French bombardment is continued daily; The local forces are strongly entrenched m l the neighbourhood of Tamsui, and all efforts to dislodge them have as yet proved unavailing. - Per Merchant Shipping anci Underwriters' Association. -— Kondon, October 1 0—Arri ved — r steamship Tongariro, from tyttelton (August 30). New York, October 9~Arrived—ship Stanley, from Auckland (July 5> - '^