CABLE NEWS.
♦ CfiEUTEBS TELEGBAM3.I London, February 22. The wool market is dull. So far 120,000 bales are to hand for next sales. Mails ex Massillia from Melbourne, January 14, were delivered to-day in Naples. February 23. Per Merchant Shipping and Under* writers' Association. — Armed, Claribel, from Auckland, September 19. In the House of Commons last night the Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, in reply to a question, stated that the Franco-German agreement regarding the disposal of the New Hebrides in no way affected the Anglo-French agreement. He added that the Australian Celonies had forwarded despatches strongly ohjecting to any abrogation of the latter agreement, and concluded by announcing that the Government was corresponding with various colonies upon the subject. It is reported that General Alikhanoff, a Russian officer, with 1,000 men, is marching on Maimana, a town 200 miles to the north-east of Herat, which was captured by the Afghans in 1874. The prospects of the Indian harvest are of a favourable nature. Capetown, January 22. The lonic tailed last night for Now Z ealand ports.
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Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 110, 25 February 1886, Page 2
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176CABLE NEWS. Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 110, 25 February 1886, Page 2
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