LATE CABLE NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1425, 6 December 1886, Page 2

LATE CABLE NEWS.

[“ AGE ’’ SPECIALS.]

[By telegraph from the Bluff]

London, November 23

It is annouoo d t.hst the report that the French Government are taking steps to largely increase their armament is unfounded and that no such action is contemplated. November 24

Intelligence haa been received that the Pussier- Government is c xhlHnng a esTe to remove the strained feeling which has existed for some time pa-t between Kussia and China and to secure the friend-hip of -he latter empire It. is announced that Rossian office s atV adivost -ok have been ordered Vi do all in their p -w-r tow-nd* nibivaii--" (im-ooh'n relations w th China.

Hi Daily Telegraph states shat the e is no f- o dat-on f me rep -ft. t but Prince Hnbin'ohe, -he German mhanaador at Paris, had warned M. de Freyon et that the prop i-al to increase the French armamen would b-- regarded by Germany as equivalent to a deolara ion of war. November 25

Efforts are being madejto - esu ct.t« the Land and Pastoral C- mpany of South Australia, which it was rec n'!y reported was to be placet in voluntary liquidation. Sir Samuel Davenport h-»s had au inter view with the Directors of the Company, at which be exp a’ned the position and prospects of the colony, and the Directors now entertain sanguine hopes of the future prosperity of the en erpriee. It is rumored hat the German Government oontemoiate att- orptirg to me li»te between Rus-ia and Bulgaria and bring abouc a pacific settlement of the present dispute. November 26.

The Hon J. Bosistn has arranged for tie affiliation of the Melbourne Art SOHOOU with the South K-nsington Museum’s School of Art.

The man. Drew, who ns. arrested In Sydney in July last, a't.r a sensational chase, during which th,. accused attempted to make his way out of the harbor in a yacht haa beet tried on tho charge upon which he was arrested, viz—era ezzling a largo sum of in meyjfrom a firm of solicitors in Norwich and he has beeu sentenced to ten years imprisonment Sir Frederick Abel haa been app doted organising secretary to the Imperial Jubilee Institute. November 28. A considerable amount of surprise has been occasioned in diplomatic circles by the official muounceueat of the fact that the Sultan of Turkey baa conferred

t'lp honor of a h>"h mili ary decoration Hi on General Kuloars, the special H'iss'fin ambassvl -r in Bulgaria, wv> has v sited O>n tmtinople w nl-a en route *o 'i Peteriburgh for the purpo-e of report'll to Die Ozir up m the condition of ff.irs if! the Ba'kioa States,

More than ordinary »o'ivi'y is being i-sp ayeii hy dyn«m : tero in Vm-Hm wi-h 'ie mmeliate ifrn t that 1 ’’D hh Ti, maa. tr.e 1 ader of the m>v mint, haleeti d .nosed owing to a want of ac iv-.t\ vtuch te h«s latterly shown in theafliirs f the organisation.