"Special to Star."

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 87, 6 January 1885, Page 2

" Special to Star."

[beUTEb's TELEGBAMS.I London, January 4. Mr Gladstone's indisposition is due to insomnia. His medical advisers hare ordered complete rest. j The frozen meat ex Elderslie is realising syd per lb. The cargoes of meat by the British India Company's steamer Dnrimda and the Orient steamer Garonue i have arrived in excellent condition. I The Right Hon. W. E. Forster, writing to the Times, advises Mr Gladstone to . comply with the remaining claims, otherwise the permanent union with the Aus« tralasian colonies is unlikely. The Spectator says that nothing. can be done while the colonies are disunited on the question of annexation. Wheat is Is lower all round. Berlin, January 4. It is believed in well-informed circles here that Prince Bismarck will consent to the establishment of a British protectorate over St. Lucia, notwithstanding the claims which have been put forward by Luderitz and Co-, of Bremen, to land on which the the British flag was hoisted. Kobti, January 1. A letter has been received here from Genera] Gordon, bearing date 14th Dee., in which he states he will be able to hold out until rescued by the expedition under Lord Wolseley. Received January 6, noon. Hong Kong, January 5. News is to hand from Tonquin that a» battle has been fought near Chu betw -en the French troops under General Neguils, and a force of Chinese numbering 6000. The engagement lasted same time And resulted in a decisive victory for the French. Caieo, January 5. Lord Wolseley telegraphs that a detachment of the South Staffordshiie Regiment which recently left Korti has reached Handab en route for Abu I Hamed.