CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 45, 25 September 1886, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

— .» . (beuteb's telfobams.) Received September 25, 1.45 a.m. London, September 24. When addressing a Conservative meeting at St. Albans last night, the Marquis ot Salisbury declared the only means of restoring social order in Ireland would be to multiply the number of small freeholds. It is understood that the mission of Nubar Pasha, the Egyption Premier, in visiting Englaud, is to settle the basis of the occupation of Egypt bj British troops for an indefinite period. The death is announced of Thomas Webster a well-known artist, aged 86. The Duke of Edinburgh and Prinoe George, of Wales, have arrived in Constantinople where tbey were cordially re* ceived by the Sultan, by whom they haye been decorated with Turkish orders. London, September 23. The P. and O. Company intend to build eight steamers of 7000 tons each to cost a million and a»half. Three to one is being laid against Wallace Ross for his match against Beach, on the 25th, for the championship. Le Soir, a Pans paper, states that ualess Egypt is evacuated England will encounter hostility in Oceania. The Hon. W. H. Smith, Secretary for War, intends to make such alterations in the positions of retired officers in colonial employ as will remove the grievances under which they at present labor. The Marquis of Salisbury has stated that the policy of his Government will be to create a peasant proprietary in Ireland. The Times commends the disinterested attempts of the Hawaiian Government to preserve the independence of Polynesia. An international sculling handicap is being arranged at the Welsh Harp Hendon; Prizes will be given to the amount of £300. Further serious riots has occurred in Belfast, necessitating calling out the Dragoons, who charged the rioters and cleared tke streets. I Lord Randolph Churchill has signified his intention of proposing next session] that exteusive changes be made in Parliamentary procedure. Paris, September 23. Intelligence has been receiyed fron Madagascar that the relations betweei i the French Resident- General at Tama tive and the Government of Madagasca: ■ are at present somewhat strained. Th< Resident has been instructed by th< French Government to demand that thi [ treaty recently concluded between th j two countries shall be carried into effect