CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 124, 30 March 1886, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

[keutebs telegrams.] Receiyed itfarch 30, 12.55 p.m." London, March 29. The Tndian and Colonial Exhibition, at South Kensington, will be formally opened on the 4th of May, by Her Majesty the Queen. New York, March 29. The difficulty between the railway employes and companies having been referred to arbitration, the strike is now terminated.

London, March 27. In the Reichstag, Prince Bismarck referred ominously to the present attitude of France toward Germany. Payment of Members Bill introduced by Mr Howard Spensley, M.P., proposes to pay members an honorarium of £300, the money to be paid from the rates. Sir W. John Clarke, of Victoria, has forwarded to the Lord Mayor of London a cheque for £250 for the relief of the unemployed in London. It is reported that Russia has occupied Port Lazareff. March 19. Whilst the Navy Estimates were under consideration Mr Brassey. member for Hastings, spoke strongly in favour of periodical visits being mndo by a powerful squadron of British vessels to Australasia and the islands iv the Pacific:

The cost of baying the estates of Irish landlords, in accordance with Mr Glad" stone's Land Purchase scheme, is calculated at £120,000,000.

It has transpired that there was no foundation for the report that France had resolved to send 1,000 recidivistes to New Caledonia. Athens, March 28. The Government has issued a procla* mat ion calling out the first and secondclass of the Greek reserves. St. Petersburg, March 28. The Russian Government has definitelj announced its rejection of the suggestion put forward by Italy that the appointment of Prince Alexander as governor of Eastern Roumelia should be unfettered by restrictions as to the duration of his term of office.