CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 112, 7 March 1885, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

«. " Special to Star." 1 ' fBEXJTKB's TELEaKAMS.I London, March 5. Should any of Murdoch's cricketing team visit England nest year they will be excluded from the Lords and OvaJ grounds, and probably from Nottingham. Messrs Young and Lark, Australian merchants, who failed some time ago, have made an offer of 15s in the pound, in_ monthly payments exceeding for a period of two years, on the ballance of debts diie by them- This offer has been accepted ,'>y most of the creditors. Prince Bismarck complains that the Blue Book issued on New Guinea contains confidential despatches. Speaking. in ; thV .Reichstag, he warned the members that if they opposed his colonial policy, he would appeal to the country. The Times to-day states that the Government have decided forwith to ask Parliament to authorise the increase of the Standing Army by fifteen thousand men. Count Herbert Bismarck, Acting Under Secretary of Affairs in (iermany, has arrived in London, on a mission to bring about a friendly understanding between Germany and England on the Pacific question. The proposal to establish a bishopric at Fiji has been abandoned. Mr Gladstone is at pre.-ent confined to his room by a feverish cold. Englund has warned Russia that she will resist the absorption of Afghan territory. The German Press stato that Earl Granville is sowing seed-i of distrust between France and Germany. Bombay, March 4. The formal receution by the Viceroy of the Ameer of Afghanistan will take place at Hussan Abbool, in the Punjaub, where twenty thousand iroops will 'je encamped for the occasion. The- ceremony will be attended with, muck splendour and eclat. Received March 7, 130 a.m. Lohboh, March 5. After an interview to-day between Lord Granyille and De Staol, the Eussian ambassador, Mr Gladstone made a statement in the House of Commons to the effect that a question of the greatest delicacy was now. pending with Russia, i and deprecated any inquiries on the 1 *ubI ject. 1 The Marquis of Hartiagton in the ; House .of Comuious confirmed the statements which have beeu current that it nan proposed to increase the standing [army, but added' that the number oi I additional men was as yet unsettled.