SPECIAL CABLEGRAMS

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 138, 7 May 1885, Page 2

SPECIAL CABLEGRAMS

BPECIAL TO PRSBS ASSOCIATION. Received May 6th, 11 p.m. London. May 6. Obituary. — Dr Daehtigal, Special German Commissioner, on tho -west coast of Africa...:. .■■ : "■'' ■■• . ■. :i . Louise Michel, the Communist, is lecturing in Paris, j. . The French paper ''Paris," in an article on the Australian and Pacific question, fears that, the Germans will try to oust the French from the Pacific. It also praises the fine culture of Australia. The University of Oxford confers tho degree of D.D. on ttie Key. Wm. Webber, Bishop of Brisbane. The opinion on the Continent in regard to the Afghan difficulty is that Russia has gained a diplomatic victory over England. Mayo. It is reported that Lord Dufferin has resigned his position of Viceroy of India. Stockfe'have fallen; : i Received May 7, 2.15 p.m. ' "London, May 6. The Canadian forces hare defeated fie Indians at Brattleford, . the latter losing fifty men. Denmark is willing to arbutate between England and Kuasia .«n the Afghan qaestion. It is resorted that the Australian contingent will , come, to England to await orders. Lord Augustas /Loftus, Governor of New Souih Wales, has written an article iv. the Pail Mall Gazette in which he BUggeiktt tUat a council, "similar to the Austrian fieichrath, should be. formed as a basis of federation Twenty tfurß^Bd-perscms of all classes (have sicatdrlhi memorial thanking the colonies for nh^r 'gen»rou» dfferi of atsistance in th^iStmdaa.