CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 56, 21 October 1884, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

+. Special to " Star." [eEUTEB's TELEGBAM9.] London, October 18. It is announced that H.M.S. ships Nelson and Diamond have been recom- j missioned and will remain on the Australian station. The instructions issued by the British Government to Commodore Erskine to proceed to New Guinea and proclaim a British protectorate over the southern coast and the adjacent islands have occasioned great excitement in France. The Parisian Press animadvert on England's insatiable greed for acquiring new territory and urge the French Government to protest against the British protectorate. It is considered improbable that the ' Federation Enabling Bill will be intro- I duced during the autumn session, as | expected, the English Government having been informed that the New South Wales \ Parliament desire to discuss the measure prior to its introduction. The retail butchers in London are , paying a higher price for New Zealand j mutton than for English mutton. The quotations for Australian wheat I cargoes are unchanged. . I St. Petebsbubq, October 18. Six officers and two womon, who were sentenced to death, for complicity in the Nihilist conspiracies, wore executed today. Beelin, October 10. Tho death is announced of YVilham, Duke of Brunswick. Received October 21, 1.5 a.m. London, October 20. The cholera epidemic has almost ceased in Franco, and reports from Italy show a great decrease in tho daily number of , deaths from the disease. i . .._ _