CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 276, 18 October 1884, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

(j-LKOTRIU TifiLEGKAPH. — COPyRIGRT.j) . .(SPECIAL TO..PNIXKD PKK£S.AS3QCIATinrN.;V, • . ; ,. • ;.:. :,] j .X.O^DQ^iOGt, \5. [ Considerable surprise; has* !jbeen expressed b^. financers m .the Citjat tlie withdrawal of tile Melbourne Gas Company's loan from tne market, .^he loati Ijeing negotiate^' by the'Ban^bf'New SoiitK^Walei iind it has transpired thaytlje Bank of En^laii^ lias refused, to continu£ ! to inscribe loarjs Unless 1 thkjr are enitrusted witti the floating" of ihera. i ' ' Sir ->f. D. Bell i^urgmg; Lor^ Derby tq sattction SirJGeorge : ;Grey> Annek^on'fiiil. J ," / i Tbe Albert. Medal. s ;has been conf ferred on Dr -W. -McfGrjcegor, & M.GL Reqeiver-j^enerai , . of .Fiji, ior . ; the gallantry displayed by him m rescujing coolies frpn\: the.; wreck ; iof . thp ship %ria, • , which went ashore. . on : !the Nasajai Reef,. on t May 11 tl^ ! ] The new ' Oriental Baukahas ihade it^ first call of, #3 per share; ; which, is payabje ; on : Novembpr ; ls. [ The Transvaal Government hay r ing vyi^hdrawp their, protection/from the chief {the',,JS»glish (^ov^rnment have directed Sir*Uerf cules flobinspn, , Governor ! at the rCape, to, establish British authority | over, his territory. „,„._, . . , ; : . „ ;