CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 140, 6 May 1886, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

. » EbBUTBBS TELEOBAMB.I Beceited May 6, 11*45 a.m. Gaibo, May 5. Adrices from the frontier state that Mahdist Arabs are. massing in large numbers in the vicinity of Dongola. London, May 3. The Australia* mails, per P. and O. Rome, dated Melbourne, March 25th/ and per Messageriet' Yarrn, dated March 25th, were delivered to*day, the former via Brindisi, and- the latter T»a Mar?.i seilles. The wool market remains quiet. For the next colonial wool auctions 240,000 bales hare arrired to date. ' . Sir Charles Dilke" has addressed' * crowded meeting at Chelsea, at whioh he stated that he was prepared to deny on oath all the allegations made against him in the recent divorce case, and to defray the costs of the Queen's Proctor's intervention. .. It is announced that a? contenfaonvhw. been signed on the part of Great Britain by Sir E.BMalet. English Ambassador at Berlin, and on behalf of Germany by Prince Bismarck, setting forth, the present and future spheres of occupation in the Western Pae!fi«\ The dividing/line starts at Milne rook, a small irfand forming part ef Queeu Charlotte group, situated in latitude 11 56 and in east longitude 170. Twenty-fire miles east from this point it crosses the Solomon group, leaving the islands of Bougainrill*, Choiseul, and Isabel to Germany. From Solomon Islands the line turns back ma north-easterly direction to Marshall Is* lands, which already belong to Germany. The convention forbids the deportation of criminals to the Pacific by either of the signatory powers, and .the confinedneutrality of Tonga and Samoa are stipulated for.