SPECIAL CABLEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 142, 16 May 1885, Page 2

SPECIAL CABLEGRAMS.

SPECL&X TO TKUd ASjaoOIiTZOV. Receited May 15, 1.30 B.m. "

" ;, : ' ;. ' ".'■■ ■ i ,;'Lb*B«c, : -MBy 14. ■ A Btrong comntfttee has been formed to carry out the construction of tho Adelaide Ocean (?). • The 'necessary funds for it will beprojided jprirately. The- pastern Extension Telegraph Compa'nj will connect at Nonnanton, in Queensland, with the Bopor Eiver, in the Northern Territory'; the Adelaide Government ./ undertaking to ebnneci'ihe hitter place with Elcie Creek, on the orerland teiegraph lint. The Qu©enala»d loan, now in the market, is quoted at ;'a t premium, of, IJ> percent. '■/■■■.,;;.■. .;.,.- fi .. _j „,,,,...,. _• Obituary.— Mr Alexander Redfern, of the firm: net Bediera;, and C©» Aua« tralUn shippers. . r.,:; (l > Sir B.jli. TiUey, llinister erf Finance for Canada, succeeds Sit Charles Tupper as High Cemmissionw of Canada. _, f ../,. : • Seceired May 16, 1.15 a.m. •'•' ''•i :lip*B6*,./Mkyls. The Hont/ Mr Childers, Chancellor oflhe Exchequer, contends thai tho Colonial Secretaries eie ; liable to pay stamp dutyi , : \ ■: [ < { r / / ,<.>;* (^ (t -„. The New .South Wales contingent, which areunder orders to return £6 AustraUashprtly, hare presented their troop' horses to ' tile Eiig!isfi o Qo^ern* ment. It is thought probable that some of the officers of the f ooAtWent may remain in Emgland^or a time at guests of the Government. Thelimitef the June wool afJaahajt been reached. It is reported that the Yaticaswill submit to England three names in connection with the appointment of the Archbiehopfor Dublin, andtittfßishop Moran's name will be the first submitted. ■•■.'.■;.:,;._.■■ ' iVivf: J.-,}.; .-..:., Lordi Sherbrooke has published a volume of poems. i:.< .... , : Parliament* has Toted an allowance to the Princess .Beatrice. -„ The tenders for the Uudcnaland two million and a half, 4 jjer cent., loan, were opened to day,- There were 553 ten^itampunisn^, tot.^early^ four naulion pounds.