LATE CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume VIII, Issue 136, 19 November 1884, Page 2

LATE CABLE NEWS.

(Per s.s. "Wairarapa at the Bluff.) (age specials. [u sited press association.) London, Nov. 6. When Q-eneral Gordon was called upon to surrender Khartoum, he replied at once that he would not surrender if he were nianaced for tea years. • Major-General Seratchley will embark for Australia en route for New Guinea '01^ the 20th inst. The Tichborne claimant, who wag released on ihe 20th ult. still asserts that William Creswell, who ia confined at Paramatta Lunatic Asylum, New South Wales, is Arthur Orton. . Earl Derby has decided to present some cf his famous red deer from Knowsley Park, Prescott, Lancashire to th/j Melbourne Hunt Club. The report that General WoUelbr has entered iuto negotiations with ihelMahdi for the peaceful evacuation of Khartoum by General Gordon and garrison is denied m this evening* papers. I . Earl Dunraven has withdrawn the I motion, of which he had given notice m the House of Lords, for an inquiry into the causes of the existing trade depression m Eugland, Lord Grauville assured the noble Earl that the reports as to the depression and distress had been greatly exaggerated. As the relief expedition proceeds up the Nile towards 'Khartoum, the difficulty of the navigation greatly increases, Latest advices declare that the boats used by the expedition are not unsuitable, but are overladen.