CABLE NEWS.
Special to " Star-" LOSS OF THE LOCH DEE. COLONIAL APPOINTMENTS. TORPEDO BOATS FOR NEW ZEALAND. j I I kkutee's telegbams. ; London, September 19. 1 Ths ship Loch Dee. two hundred dfiys out from Lyttelton to London, has been posted al Lloyd's. The Duke of Cambr dge has approved of the following military appointments made in the Victoria land forces : — Maior Disney, of the Royal Artillery, as Commandant; Captain Fellows, of First Battalion East Surrey Regiment, as Staff Oftieer, of Infantry ; and Major Brownrigg. of Rifle Brigade, as Brigad--- , -..•ajorand Head of the School of In* | struetion. j The f'tur torpedo boats ordered by tho j New Zealaud Government have been | completed aud launched. A trial of them lifts taken {dace at Greenwich, with re>nlts highly successful, over seventeen , knots being run. At the luncheon which '■. followed the trial, there was a large and fashionable company. Received Sept. 22. 0.55 a.m. London. Sept. 21. Mr Gladstone arrived at Gravesend yesterday from his yachting cruise in the Baltic.
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Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 47, 22 September 1883, Page 2
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168CABLE NEWS. Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 47, 22 September 1883, Page 2
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