CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 125, 1 April 1886, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

•- [beutebs telbgbams.j Received April 1, 1*45 a.m. - London, March 31. In the House of Commons last night, the motion brought forward by Mr Hen- | nicker Heston in fsvor of a universal penny postage' throughout the British i dominions, was rejected by a large • majority. . . Constantinople, March 30. The Russian vessels belonging to the combined squadron at present stationed at Suda Bay, Crete, have been ordered to proceed to Symra. Bussia having refused hor assent to tfie Italian amendment to appoint Prince Alexander Governor of Eastern Bouxnelia without limitation of time, the European Powers have reverted to the original proposal for a five rears' tenure of office. London, March 30, The death is announced, aged 86, of Sir Henry Taylor, K.0.M.G., who joined the Colonial Office in 1824; Negotiations are in progress between England and France, touching the cession of Eapa Island to Great Britain. The French Government appear reluctant to part with the territory in question. March 21. The ship MacdnfE, 1280 toss, trading with Australia, has grounded under the cliff* of the North Foreland* The vessel was considerably damaged, "but has been floated again. Another shipping calimity has just occurred at Gravosend. The ship Collingreve, 861 tons, also an Australian trader, has gone ashore. No fears are entertained for the safety of the ship, which is expected to be floated promptly.