CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 95, 27 January 1885, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

" Special to Star."

. [beuteb 's telegbams. 1 London, January 24; Arrived, at Flymouth, the Lusitana from Melbourne, December 12. The Daily News to-day states that England intends to annex the whole of the southern part of New" Guffiea.: _ A sharp rise has taken place in nearly all Colonial 'corporate stocks." - I _At t_>-4 a J-' s wool .auction, the prices were. steady, but the demand was not active. The catalogue comprise 79,000 -bales. _^ » Mr Parnell," speaking at Cork, urged the laborer- and.' farjners_t» pay no rent, land also urged* the ..protection of- Irish industries! -.-.,.. .'.'■..., ,-'"'*■."'•■'■'--. It is believed that the' Victorian Gov-, erunalmt ' claims the Orient al; Banfcestate willj-e settled .by/ -he,.;_M■y~' ment^]EL_S<fe'in t-ie-£, without' interest. „ "< .The,advance,pf jt.be;l3Ktish , expedition to Bechuanaland has commenced. Washington , J anuary 24, . v t A ; bill has been pres.ht*d to the' Senate-! to provide for, the .punishm^ntof explosive 7 crimes hatched or. committed in America or elsewhere. i< : i ■ Hong KoNe, January 23; . The French troops' recently' -made"-' 'an" attack on the Chjnese at Kelurig, and : . were repulsed iwith .severe lost. ■ .';