CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 100, 7 February 1885, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

" Special to Star."

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London, February 4. The wool market continues firm. Today's catalogue comprised 9,700 bales.

The steamer Auialifii, 1792 tons, owned by Messrs Slowman and Conipany, Hamburg, ran into and sank the steamer .Nederland en Oranje, 1514 tons, of Amsterdam, at Aden. The New South Wales Government are, through Sir Saul Samuel Apent- General, parleying with Lord Derby in regnrd to the amount of the British contribution for maintaining the protectorate over Nevr Guinea. Sir John C'oode is about to visit Freomantle in connection with the harbour works there. Baron Reay advocates the appointment of colonial members to the House of Lords. Sir John Henry Le Froy succeeds Baron M cLeay on the council of the Hoyal Colonial Institude. Lord Derby has accepted the offer of the Wolverine for service, the New South Wales Government undertaking to refit her. Sir F. Dillon Bell, Agent-General for New Zealand, has invited the otLer Agents-General to make an obiection to Austria's proposal to establish penal colonies, so tar as the Pacific is concerned. New Yobk, February 4. The partisans of Eossa stigmatise the woman Dudley as a British emissary sent to take Rossa's life. Received February 5, 11.20 a.m. London, Feb. 6. The London papers, referring to the British position in Soudan, are unanimous in declaring a retreat impossible. Most of the journals advise a strong reinforcement, consisting partly of Indian native regiments, to be dispatched to Swakim, from thence to open the road to Berber. A Cabinet council will be held to-day to consider the Soudan position. Sir Charles Dilke, President of the Local Government , Board, speaking at Paddington, announces 'that Lord Wolseley telegraphs there is no cause of anxiety as to the position of the British troops at Gakdul and Metemneh. Sir Charles also stated that Count Minister (?) German ambassador in London was on the 26th January, instructed to convey the British Government's protest against the German annexation of North INew Guinea,' as being contrary to the promise made by the German Government to England.