CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 12, 9 July 1885, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

« ETJSSTA MASSING HER TEOOPS. NATIONAL BANK OP NEW ZEALAND. ANOTHER FRANCO-CHINESE . BATTLE. BBADLATJGH EXCLT7DED FROM THE HOUSE. NEW SOUTH WALES LOAN OF H MILLIONS. [bKVTBBB TStBOBAMS.I Londok, July 7Obituary.— Admiral Wilson; formerly Commodore on the Auntrakan station, and the Sight Eev George Moherly, Bishop of Salisbury* aged 82. Bussia is massing her troops at Sarakhi. ' , , -, „. ' ;' t '■ Lord Salisbury, stated that the next general election would probably take place on Novi mber 17. ' The National Bank of New Zealand j have not declared a dividend. It is estimated that £18,000 will be required j temeet probable losses. ; The New Zealand Shipping Company's 1 Kaikoura left. Plymouth last sight for Auckland, calling at Teneriffe and Cape' Town en route. The position ot the French forces in Madagascar is becoming serious. ! j Mr Bradlaugh has been excluded from the House of Commons by a majority of! 44. ' /-■<■:■ ■■•■> \ F'Vi Oiiman Digna is at; present visiting the Mahdi. . ' : ; The Cabinet will probably adopt Lord Nerthbrbok's suggestion thiat the Sultan of Turkey should help in settling the Soudan question. : Sir J. Fergusson has been invested with the order of £ui^ht Grand Commnhder of the Star of India. ' It is exacted that the amount of the New South Wales loan, which will pro* bably be placed m the market shortly, will be 5} millions. Sir Matthew Eidley, the member for Northumberland, has been offered the position of Chief Secretary for Ireland. It has now transpired that in the Budget proposals of the late Government was one to impose a legacy duty on the property of Australian Colonists dying in England. , Paris, July 6. Further details with regard to the fighting in Annam show that the citadel . at Hue was attacked by fully 30,000 Annamites, and that a saniiuinary con|« fliet ensued before the Natives were repulsed. The French casualties were sixty killed, while their opponents le>i over l 2"0 men. { General Courcv has applied to the [ Government for reiaforoementa to be seat to him. ■ Beceived July 9, 1 15 am. 1 Lomsok, July 8. The official entry of the newly^ap 1 pointed Lnrd*Lieut(*nanr of Ireland (Earl i Carnarvon) into Dublin took place yes- » terday. His Excellency met with a most ; enthuiiastio reception. > In the House ef Commons yesterday, ' in reply to a question, Sir Michael Hicks--1 Beach, Cliancejjor of the Exchequer, i titatod that the Gorernment knew np ' reason why Sir Henry Druihtnond Wolffe 1 nhouid not proceed to Kgjrpt upon a *y*» L eial mission as arranged. He denied that the presence of Sir Henry would be ; distasteful to the Khedive. ; , The National Bank of New Zealand , published its half-yearly returns yester- • day. The directors report that they are i not in a position to declare a dividend. '. the surplus of LBOOO for the transaction* i of the period will be carried forward and placed to the reverve fund. I , In Ihe House of Common* last Bight, i Sir Michael Hiek**Beach announced to ,' the Houne the programme of the legisla 1 * i tion to be brought down by the Govern, i ment, which includes, among other things, [ a measure for facilitating the" federation i of the various parts of the, Empire. Mr Gladstone spoke, and announced that tb»- , Opposition, acquiesced in the proposal^ > of the Government. An early dose of the session is lookad forward to. ; .