SPECIAL CABLEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 144, 21 May 1885, Page 2

SPECIAL CABLEGRAMS.

FEOZEN MEAT TRADE. FRANCE AND CHINA. THE REVISED BIBLE MEETS WITH LARGE SALE. MR GLADSTONE'S EARLY RETIREMENT. RUSSIA AND CABUL. SPECIAL TO PBKBB ABSBOCIATIOH'. Lonbow, May 19. a The revised version of the Bible is having an immense sale. Germany is urging France not to accept the terms of the Egyptian Con-' vention unless the European control of the Suez Canal is provided for. Mr Gladstone, in the course of a speech in the House of Commons, toe--f erred to the early close of Ids political career. . Russia claims to l>e permitted to locate a diplomatic agent at CabuiL * Her generals stationed in the vicinity of the Afghan frontier are insisting upon the retention of the ZaHUcar pass. Received May 20, 9.55 p.m. ■ •" London, M«y2o. The frozen meat per Rimatulca is realising sfd per lb. The Ameer of Afghanistan is in a depressed state, and seems disposed to buy' Russia off. China has rejected three of the French demands contained in the proposed peace treaty. The shipment of grapes by steamer Potosi have arrived in a marketable condition. Lord Derby has promised to assist to the utmost in the settlement of New Guinea. New Zealand agrees to the omission, of clause 31 in the Federation Bill ok condition that the compromise suggested by the Hon. Mr S. W. Griffiths, Premier of Queensland, is accepted.