CABLE NEWS.
♦ BBOTBS'S TKLEOHAHB.] London, November 17. Tenders for the Melbourne Harbear ' Board loan ef L 250.000 at 4J per cent ■' were opened to-day. The total amount . • applied tor was L 2.150.000. Tenders at LlO5 6s will receive 60 per cent ; abovo 1 that in full. . -. .• 1 The French Government refuse to al- j - low affairs in Tonquin aad Madagascar 1 to become stagnant. : Mr John Branitton, Assistant Under- : Secretary to the Colonial Office, and : < delegates from the Poat- Office and Trea- ] sury, have been -^appointed a committee . i to inquire mtbanetrep*ff>:iipon the prcpoial.«{ Mr' Baker, late PestmastorGeneral ol Auitralia, with reference to the' ettabliihment of an AogloAastralian.mail service. The German New Guinea Company hat made a Y recommendation to the Government to^; defer for a year its aehema for the ooloaisation of the German portion of New Guinea. " John Bright has actively entered upon the election, canpaignia Birmingham, in oppoiition to Lord Bandolph Churchill, Secretary of State fer India. ; t The members ef the shipping ring formed to maintain; high freightage charges to Auitralia art " boycotting all shippers who are found to support Meisrs Thyisr and Co. urtheir attempt to break up the present arrangement. ; Ottawa, November 17. ' Louis Kiel, half-caste, was execmted yesterday.. .. , • v : •. . : -.. . . ■■ J Bmuw, rNoyember, 17. The decision of His Holine«s the Pope respecting the: CaroUne' Islands was made known to-day. His Holiness recommends the German Government to recognise the .claisas of Spam to ther territory in question and accept the com* mercul concessions offered 1 by Spain. Beoeived November 14» 18, p.at. - Loiruoir, November 18- , Mr Gladstone addressed a meeting of his constituents at West Calder last night. In the oo«rs« of his speech he referred at some length to the 'present difficulty! in Roumelia, and applauded the course adopted by the Marquis of Salisbury v dealing with the subject. - :
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Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 69, 19 November 1885, Page 2
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