CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 83, 22 December 1885, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

BEUTBB'S TBIEOHAMS.I

London, December 18. The work of delimitating the KussoAfgban frontier has been brought to a standstill in consequence of the extremel j dirergeat view* ef the representatives of , England and Russia regarding the in* ' elusion of Marnchak in the territory ef the latter country. i The New Zealand Shipping Company's Tongariro sailed from Plymouth for Auckland and Wellington this afternoon. She will call at Teneriffe and the Cape of Good Hope en route. The New Zealand mails which left Auckland on October 13th were delivered here yesterday via San Francisee, two days before d«e date. ~ The laoeme tax en deposits will eemmenoe in April. Mr Bagg has been appointed Prefessor of Mathematics at the Adelaide University, aud will leave for then about this middle of January . Mr Belcher, of King's College, Cambridge, has been selected for the position of Sector of the Otago High School. Colonel Stanley and the several AgentsGeneral are arranging to proclaim sovereignty over New Guinea, which will be done if the colonies are liberal in subscribing funds for the purpose. It is considered probable that Mr John Douglas will be appointed High Commit* sioner. ' Mr K. C. Baker's postal- scheme has been submitted to the Treasury for consideration, December 19 The Times states that the following of Mr Chamberlain in variously estimated at from 60 to 150. The Times in an article on Mr Gladstone's policy, says that the conscience of the Country is deeply shocked at his conrersion, which might lead to a disruption of the Empire ; and the article nrges the moderate Tories (P Liberals) to reject the proposals. COHBTAKTiiroF£B, December 19. Moukbtsr Pasha, who was appointed Turkish Commissioner in Egypt with Sir Henry Drummond Wolff, has not yet left this oity, the recent hostile encounters between the Soundanebe Arabi and the British troops baring rendered the Anglo-Turkish Convention, a dead letter for the present. Beceived December 17, 1 a.m. Constantinople, December 21. The Commission, appointed by the Sultan for the purpose of defining the BulearianaSerrian frontier, has armed at the boundary of the two countries and will commence its labors forthwith.