CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 19, 25 July 1885, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

♦ [BSVTBBB TEtBGBAMB.I London, July 28. It is reported that the Russian Govern* meat have obtained authority to occupy temporarily the island of Quelpaert, off The Egyptian* loan wUTttirtsiuei nixi week. The Gordon Memorial Fund amounts te £21,000. It has been decided that to memorial will take the shape* of a> home for friendlesi boyi, ia memoriam •f Gordon's jreat werk in ttseving ehildrea from the fttiteti ' k - It is expected that the Earl of Carnarvon will take a* early •pportnaity of. comidering tne memerisls relative to the release of iev«ral Irish prisoners; The Times commenting on tiEe^maUef, •«•• I demna the aeiiom af L*»i^Baliabary>4a' truckling to Mr Paraell. Colonel Bidgway, who sueeeeded Sir Peter Lamsden oa the Afghan Frontier Delimitation Commission, has been invested with the Order of Knight of the Stiw of Indta. Beceived July 26, 1*25 a m. '. Lojtdov, . Jmly 24. It is announced that the marriage of the Princess Beatrice will bej solemnised at Whippiogham Churoß. The Q«een will gire the bride away. Prepay4tions are being made for great public xejoieings on the occasion. ■■•..<-- •■ In the House of Common* last night the 'amendment introduesd by C. Jesse Colliags, MJ>. for Ipswick, into the Medical Belief Bill came on for'discussion, and was carried by a large majority in spite of the opposition of the Government. Sir Mieaael Hicks-Beach thereupon declared he destined to be further answerable for the bill in its present shape. The Queen ha* been pleased to bestew the Order of: the Garter upon Prince Henry of Battenburg. .... The revised Budget, introduced by Sir Michael Hioks-Beach. Chancellor of the Exchequer, was adopted to-night by the House of Commons. „ / '