CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 107, 24 February 1885, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

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Bkhli.v, January 22

The European Conference agreed to the neutrality of the Congo Biver. The conference will close on Thursday next.

London. February 22

The Prince of Wales will preside at the next meeting of the Royal Colonial Institute; when Sir P. Napier Broouie will read a paper on Perth.

It is considered unlikely that Sir G. W. Des Vceux will be appointed to succeed Sir W. F. D. Jervois as Governor of iN T ew Zealand.

Russia is despatching a force of 30,000 men to the region south of the

Casnian Sea

In the House of Lords, the Marquis of Salisbury stated that the colonial policy of the Government had brought nothing but repeated insults.

> ews is to hand from Central Asia that a Russian force is advancing from Turkestan towards Puij-deh, a town on the river Marghababoit fifty mi es to the south of the present Afghanistan-Turk-estan frontier line. In consequence of this step, Sir Peter Luuisden and the British members of the Aaglo-Russian ( oinmissiouhave retired from Sarakahs to Herat, fearing that a co lision will take place between the Afghans and Russians, owing to the encroachment of the latter on Afghan territory,