TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume I, Issue 67, 14 January 1880, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(Reuter’s Telegrams,) LONDON. January 10. Fourteen bodies have been recovered from the Firth of Tay, the scene of the recent disasterRenewed rumours of massing Russian troops on the German frontier are attracting a good deal of public attention in Eugland and EuropeIhe total reserve in notes and bullion in the Bank ef England amounts to £14,750,000. News ha 9 been received that two chiefs on the Gold Coast havo ceded their seaboard to the British, It is believed the British Government intendj to acquire Popo. a sea-port on the Slave Coast, and Abomey, the capital of Dahomey. Obituary—Johu Humphreys Parry, Sergeant at-law, aged 63. Deceased died suddenly, and the shock killed his wife. January 11. Her Majesty's ship Bacchante, with the sons of Hie Prince of Wales’ has arriyed at Barbadoes. News from So ith America states that the Bolivian troops at Tachua have revolted. BERLIN. January 10. The German Lower House passed a resolution voting six million marks for relief ot suflerers by the famine in Silesia. BOMBAY. January 10. According to the latest news from Afghanistan, General Roberts held Durbar at Cabul yesterday. He assured the Afghan chiefs that the Indian Government would respect the lives, religion, and proporty of the Afghan people. (Special to the Melbourne Argus.) LONDON. January 10. Although Prince Bismarct strongly supports the proposals to subsidise a company replacing Messrs Godefroy. it is doubtful whether the Reichstag wiil approve or sanction the plan. The distress in Ireland is inoreasing. The Ma lborough House Funds now amount to £l4 000, but makes only slow progress. An impression prevails, on the part of the Belgian C ammission appointed tor the Melbourne Exhibition, that if the application for extended time be granted, the Belgian Government will ask the Chamber to vote a subsidy towards the due represeutation of Belgium at the Exhibition.