CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 106, 21 February 1885, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

" Special to Star."

Fbkdtkb's tulkgbams.l In the House of Commons yesterday Mr Gladstone stated thai the British, troops were going to Khartoum to break the power of the .VI ahdi. I London, February 19. The death is announced of Alad-ane Sainton-Dalby, the well-known voca ist, aged 64. The Times states that England will adhere to the extension of her anuexation boundaries in JNe«r Guinea. M Soudriffe, French i ommissary at the Melbourne' lnternational Exhibition, ! has been convicted of swindling, and sentenced to a term of imprisonment. The argument on the point raised by Lord Chief Justice Baggailay as to whether the appointment oE Mr Welt >n as liquidator in the Oriental Bank was regular, was. decided in favour of Mr Welton. Received February 21, 12.60 a.m. London, Ftbruary 10. The Quern to- day inspected at Windsor the Grrndadier Guards, who are about to proceed to Egypt. The Prince of Wales has returned to London from Cannes. At a banquet giren by the London Chamber of Commerce to-day, the Hon. Evelyn Ashley, Under- Secretary, made a speech which advocated Imperial Federation, and the admission of Colonial Agents-General to the House of Com' mons, but without rote. Sir Saul Samuel, in a speech on the occasion, remarked that it was impossible to draw the colonies closer together than they were at present.