RETUR'S TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 91, 12 January 1886, Page 2

RETUR'S TELEGRAMS.

; ■ Lond6x, January Or Mr H. Lucey has been appoiatod editor of the Dailj News. ■' w^; Parliament 'wiJl be opened By Her" in person on the 21st inst A protocol has been signed by England -and^Spahi^rantinc to - £Snglandßsll< such privileges as are enjoyed by Gerjnonyiutrtaard«rahtteSrittaidsu] Tenders for the mail service have been iuspendednntil Queensland,- Tasmania, and^vVesfcera Australia have decided whether all postages from these colonies wrll s^t byßne"&d%al sffxriaa; unless specially addretted. ■;; ; yi- '■^'^'^ v Th« expoftr fpr" the year show decrea««of £2O,O0P,(i00, ai compared with the returns jasit year. In the imports there it also a falling off of £16,000,000. The French Ministry formed by M. Freycinet ii con»idered a weak one. Tbetb^ afloat for the United Kingdom it 1^70,000 quarters. New Zealand froz«n mutton ia realising 5d par pound in "the Smithfield market. " - r A iff - WaßHinotok, January 9. -■■ The Senate has passed a measure of a very stringent character for the purpose of repressing the practice of polygamy among the, Uibrment of Utah territory, i January 9. I Greece is now assuming a more f neudly attitude towards the 1 Pocte, and a large) -number of troops recently massed on the frontier have been 7 granted fkrl«ughi. : The ostensible reason is the occurrence of the Chrielmae holidays, but it is gene. ; rally' suppioeed that the Greek Govern.; inent have adored the isdirect method ef disbanding tkef*ree«. ; Beceived January 18, 1.90 sun. /; A \ - GoHWAKTiNOPLE, January 11. j The European Powers have agreed to summen Greece; Bulgaria; and Senria to demobilise their armies, and commumcH-. tions to that effoct have beenjnade to the countries in question.; ['■'■[; .[ ... ! -..Gaibo; January .ll. ; The discussion between the Khedive, JtUulchtar Pasha, and Sir Henry Druoji mond Wolffe, the Anglo-Turkish Commissioner, commenced to-day. Moiikhtar Pasha opeaed the discussion, the only subject touched upon being the question (.of the proposed strengthening of the Egyptian army. Meukhtar Pasha declared that a force composed of Turkish Kusiulomea was required to pacify the Soudanese, and. stated he would telegraph to the Sultan announcing the number of Turkish troops it would be necessary tb employ. • London, January 11. : The. German squadron recently engaged off Zanzibar has sailed for Australia. ! Arrived— The Orient Company's Li» guria from Australia. : - • ■• c Arrived —Chili from Lyttelton Sept. 18, Crusader from Auckland October 21.