CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 131, 15 April 1886, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

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Received April 15, 1*35 p.m.

London, April 14. Lord Elgin succeeds Earl Morley as Chief Commissioner of Works.

England has accepted the proposals of France, relative to tho New Hebrides.

The Porte has made a proposal to the European Powers to the effect that the combined fleet, now lying at Crette, j should be employed to compel Greece to disarm. New Yoke, April 14. Per Merchant Shipping and Underwriters' Association, arrived — Nettie, Auckland, December 26. London, April 13. It is announced that Lord Eenmar has resigned the position of Lord Chamberlain, and the Earl of fork has also resigned the office of Master of the Horse.

The Fall Mall Gazette and Standard comment upon the proposal that France should b» permitted to annex the New Hebrides. Both the journals named applaud the firmness of Victoria and the other colonies in opposing a compromise. Mr O'Dougherty, who was formerly a member of the Queensland Legislative Council, but who at the last general election was eleoted to represent Meath in the House of Commons, has notified his intention of moving that members of the colonial Legislatures should be permitted to take part in the debates in the House of Commons without a right to vote.

The French Press approve of Mr Gladstone's Irish proposals, but both the German and Austrian Press condemn them.

Hanlon has challenged Beach to row a match on the Thames for £500 a side.

A Cossack plot to kill the Czar by means of dynamite has been discovered.