CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 44, 25 September 1884, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

Special to " Star." [bettteb's telegrams.] London, Sept. 23. Leading articles are now appearing in the Metropolitan and provincial newspapers strongly advocating a material increase in the strength of the British Navy. It is reported on the Stock Exchange that the Queensland Gorernment meditate borrowing ten millions spread over a specified period. It is also understood that the negotiation will be placed in the hands of London financial experts-

There is no change to report in Australian wheat cargoes.

Sir Arthur Blyth, Agent-General for South Australia, has been instructed by the Government he represents, to unite with the other Agents-General in urging on Lord Derby the necessity of granting a protectorate over the Pacific Islands.

Mr Fawcett has finally decided to adhere to despatching letters for New Zealand alternately by the San Francisco and Orient mails. He states that a special address to letters will be required for the Peninsular route.

Mr Grant, a banker nt Portsmouth, has been appointed a director of the South Australian Bank.

At the Birmingham Social Science Congress yesterday, Mr F. Labilliere read a paper on Federation, which evoked considerable criticism. Two papers were also read advocating the application of Sir Robert Torrens' land registration system to land in Great Britain.

Sir Hercules Robinson, Governor of Cape Colony, threatens to resign unless a decisive British policy in regard to Bechuana Land is announced.

An electric launch for Australiahas been successfully tried on the Thames.

The News of General Gordon's recent j victories over the rebels is doubted in Cairo. Received Sept. 25, 0.50 a.m. Caibo, Sept. 23. Further intelligence of the state of affairs in Khartoum have been received at the hands of a messenger who was sent by General Gordon. The despatches which he brings prove that the withdrawal of the Arab rebels from that town was correctly stated, and that General Gordon has been completely successful in his operations. At the time the messenger left Khartoum supplies were plentiful and large quantities were being brought in. General Gordon had already despatched his steamers to Senaam, on the Blue Nile, to relieve the garrison and inhabitants, and preparations were being made for sending a strong force to attack the rebels at Berber. The messenger met the British expedition which has boen sent from Assouan to Dongola.

September 24. The Russian Government has joined with France, Germany, and Austria in protesting against Nubar Pasha's proposal to suspend the law of liquidation in re the Egyptian debt.

Hong Kong, Sept. 24. Li Hung Chang has been reinstated in his position as Prime Minister.