CABLE NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1430, 15 January 1885, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

LATEST FROM EUROPE* (bXUTEB’S TaiaORSHH—COPYRIGHT.] Brindisi Mails. London, January 13. The Homeward Brindisi mails, dated Melbourne, December 4th, were delivered to-day. Sir Charles Dilke. London, January 14. Sir Charles Dilke addressed a crowded meeting at Kensington last night. He said the course of recent events would entail modification by the Gove r nment of its colonial policy, and at the same time of its foreign policy. German Mail Steamers. Bbbun, January 13. At a sitting last night of the subcommittee of the Reichstag, appointed IB consider the question of subsidising lines of mail steamers and to report upon details of the project, Herr de Boetticher, Secretary Of State for the Interior, stated that a.proposal to subsidise steamers trading to Australia bad . do connection with the annexation of New Guinea. Dr Stephan, Imperial Postroaster-General, spoke strongly in lavot of the proposal, and declared®that the inauguration of the Australian line of steamers was of special importance to Germany. Zanzibar Coast. Bbbdin, January 13. The German Government take occasion to disavow any intenrion of attempting to establish a protectorate over the Zanzibar coast. Khartoum. Cairo, January 13. ''' Telegrams from Korti state that Colonel Stewart arrived at El Matem- , , utjli. on the Nile, and is within a hup--V ’dred miles of Khartoum. .Colonel - will at once open cotnrauni- ; J |«l6nwith Khartoum, but no further 4 place until General captured Berber aud arrived troops # £1 Matemneb.