CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 14, 14 July 1885, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

«. [EEUTEH3 TKLEQBAMS.I London, July 13. | An immense sensation has been caused here by the Pail Mall Gazette publishing an article under the guise of the Beform of Social Evils, in consequence of which the paper has been expelled from all clubs and book stalls. The police are alno prerentmg the sale of the papers : containing the offensive article, and the authorities threaten to take proceedings against the proprietors of the Gnzette. In retaliation, the proprietors of the paper threaten to publish disclosures which will involve Royalty and Cabinet Ministers. Sir H. Herbert, Permanent Undersecretary for the Colonies, has informed the various CoUnial Agents-General that Government intend to move the omission of the proviso allowing any colony quitting the Federal Uuion to repeal the acts referrinn to itself that may hare been passed by the Federal Council during the time that such member of the Union. Prime New Zealand mutton is realis* ing an average of sjd to 6jd per lb. General Brackenbury telegraphs a report that the Mahdi is dead, but the rumour is said to lack confirmation. The Kusxian preparations in Asia are causing grave anxiety, and it is feared that the difficulty will be resumed in the autumn. The Russian Press claims that Russia is entitled to the territory lying at the foot of the Hindoo Koosh Mountains in Afghanistan. The wool sales concluded yesterday. The closing prices rantfe from £d to Id below the April closing rates, except greasy and crossbred sorts, whioh have recovered slightly. Three hundred and twenty -three thousand bales were catalo^u«'d, of which seventy thousand were withd/awn. Ciibo, July 11. Brigadier-General Green, R.E , ha.< proceeded to Assouan, on the first cataract of the Nile, taking with him half the regiment of 20th Hussars. Received July 14, 1 10 a in. London, July 13. It is announced that the Government have resolved to extend the Quettah Peaheen Railway as far as Khojuk Pass in the direction of Candahar. . Intelligence from Central Asia states that considerable Russian reinforcements continue to advance on Sarrakhs.