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Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 12, 10 July 1886, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

Cekutee's tblegbams. ( Received July 10, 1.15 p.m. London, July 9. Great preparations are being made for the entertainment of a large party of colonial gue>ts at Portsmouth. A luncheon will be held on beard H.Mo. Victory, to be followed by an exhibition of torpedo practice. London, July 8. The International University cricket match, Oxford v. Cambridge, resulted in a victory for Oxford. The Shaw Saviile, Albion steamship Tainui, from New Zealand, arrived at Plymouth yesterday morning. Her cargo of meat was in good condition. The New Zealand loan will be placed on the market in October. It is expected that the Tasinanian loan will be floated at £101 10s. It is announced that the British Government will ab.tain from taking isolated action regarding the notification of the Russian Government closing Batoum as a free port.l . ■- Severe fights have taken place on the frontier between the Turks and Monte* negr'in«. Vir Patrick Egan has summoned an Irish League Convention to meet in Chicago on August 18,. to discus* Iri<h affairs. It is expected that the Exhibition will be prolonged until December. At a banquet given under the auspice* of the Chamber of Commerce Congress' the Marquis of Lome said that tho colonies were i.ngland's best customers in times of peace, and her surest allies in times of war. Messrs Davie*. Reid, and Mcmillan spoke. The European Press consider that Batoum ceasing- to be a free port is a prelude te renouncing the Berlin Treaty, and is a blow at England. The first Australian parcels' post ban been despatched, and some ceremony was made on the occasion by the postal, 'authorities." Sir A. E. Havelock has refused to accede to the Boers' demand in Zululand, and a deadlock has ensued. Brussels. July 8. A serious fire broke out to-day in the University, in this %ity, resulting in the destruction of the greater portion of the building.