"Special to Star"

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 93, 20 January 1885, Page 2

" Special to Star"

[BEUTEB'S TELEGBAMS.I London, January 18. The refusal of the Victorian Government to accept the offer of nineteen j shillings in the pound from the liquida- I tors of the Oriental Bank estate has been brought before the courts, and Justice ! Chitty gave judgment in the matter to- ; day, deciding that colonial statutes dp ] not affect the claim ef the Victorian Government upon the estate. Mr Gladstone, eldest son of the Premier, and member for East Worcestershire, in addressing a meeting at Ha warden yesterday, said that his father would shortly retire ..from public life. M. Waddington, French. Minister at London, has presented counter-proposals by the French Government for the. settlement of the Egyptian finances, to Earl Granville's proposals. They comprise 9,000,000 sterling issued tinder a guarantee of Great Powers, a tax on" all the coupons of the Egyptian bonds, and the appointment of a' commission- of inquiry into the resources of Egypt. ■'*'■: Sailed yesterday afternoon—New Zealand Shipping Company's R.M.S. Rirautaka for Wellington with the New Zealand mails. The Court of Appeal has confirmed the sentence of four months' imprisonment passed in April last upon Edmund Yates, proprietor of the World newspaper, for libel on Earl Lonsdale. It is understood that the arrangements come to between England and Germany regarding ■ Samoa _ and Tonga ; has now b-en finally settled; and that no attempt will be made to annex either island. Pabis, January 17. The death is announced of Edmund About, the well-known French author and journalist, aged 57.