CABLE NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1547, 8 July 1885, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

LATEST FROM EUROPE . [Ulim’l MLMBiItS—OOPTKIGHT. 1 The New Government. ■ Londoh, July 6. Parliament re-asserabled yesterday after the adjournment. In the House of Lords, the Premier, Lord Salisbury, announced that Her Majesty’s Government vrould resume negotiations with Russia on the Afghan frontier question, at the paint to which they had been • continued by Earl Granville, late Foreign Secretary, and would fulfil the promise made to the Ameer of Afghanistan, that the retention of Zulficar Pass should be assured. Whatever settlement was arrived at between England and Russia, it was imperative to promptly and vigorously prepare for the protection of our Indian frontier, and, more than that, to stfctch somewhat beyond it, in order to prevent the tide of wart breaking against it. Referring to the Egyptian Question, Lord Salisbury that the matter was one which would require some settlement Eari. Carnarvon. Earl Carnarvon, the newly-appointed Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, assured the House that during his term of office he would endeavor firmly to ad* xninister the ordinary laws of the country. OSanataiT and Commercial. Three per cent consols are lower, ' ' Reports from the wheat-growing - districts show that the prospects of a /good crop this year ate favorable. The Wool Sales. Thirteen thousand nine hundred ' bales of wool were offered for sale on / Saturday and to-day. The tone of the market is firm. The Mails. The mails ex Sorata from Melbourne May 39, were delivered to via Naples.