CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 42, 17 September 1885, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

ENGLAND AND EGYPT. FAILURE OP SIR H. D. WOLFF'S MISSION. THE FRENCH IN TONQUIN. A NEW GERMAN SQUADRON. [BEUTBBS' TKLKGBAMB.I London, September 15. Lord Randolph Churchill has been suffering from the effects of overwork and has been ordered by his physician! to take six weeks' rest. The English Government have announced that, so far as the purely commercial aspect of the question is concerned, England will support Germany in iier pretensions to the Caroline Islands. Constantinople, September 15. Sir Henry Drummond Wolff, Envoy Extraordinary to the Porte, had four meetings with the officials appointed by tke Sultan to confer with him on the Egyptian question. So far bo definite result has been attained. Caibo, September 15. It it currently reported here that Said Pasha, Prime Minister *f Turkey, has been ordered oy the Sultan to visit Egypt, but the news has not been officially confirmed. Paris, September 15. Tao Government are in receipt of despatches from General De Courcy, commanding the French forces in Tonquin, stating that in consequence of the recent attack on the citadel at Hue by Armite troops, ho (General de Courcy) has dethroned the reigning King and placod Chan D«ng oa the throne in bis stead. Berlin, September 15. The German Admiralty-are engaged at present in the equipment of a special , aquadron for serriee on Atlantic stations. The vessels will be readr shortly. Received September 17, 12,30 p.m. London, September 16. The Times this day, in an article on Mr Drummond W»lnV« mission to the Porte, states the British Government declined to fix the date for the evacuation of Egypt by the British forces, but perhaps an Anglo-Turkish Commission will be appointed to determine the period of such eracuation if it become possible. Yesterday's wool sales, 9700 bales were catalogued ; dull market.