CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 104, 10 March 1887, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

[By Klectno Telegraph.— Copyright ] rREUTEB's TELEGRAMS! *■• Received March 10, 1.30 p.m. Berlin, March 9, In the Reichstag to day a Bill for in» . creasing the German army for a term of % five years was voted by a large majority. LoNp.»N,„March 8. J The Australian mails, per Messageries i steamship Caledonien. Melbourne. January 26th, Sutlej, Melbourne January 27th j were delivered to«day. It is understood that the questionof the contract for the carriage of Australian mails will not be decided until Imperial Jubilee i inference meets next month. ■ In>tbe,Houseef .Common* last/ night I the n_bt!6n of Mr Bradlaugb; hot td allow I the expenses pf Henry Drum mond Wolff s. ! mission -to Turkey and -Egypt -was -•re^--' jected. In thecourse ofitheidebate, Sir J. Fereusson, Under-Secretary for Pore« ign Affairs, stated; that thane was $very prospect of Sir tt. pT W^dlff'i •mission b6ihg successful. A y . { The. Emperor William is still ailing and much concern is felt at the state pf his health. - : « .. | It is rumoured that Mr Cecil Raikes, Po»tmaster»Geheral, is about to be appointed Governor of; JSeWi Zealand- r in succession to, Sir William Jer*;qis. ■',;.• I "Hanlan will forward to the Sportsman articles of his match with Beach, which is to be'rowed on the Nepeah.f or £500[a side. '. yd ' "'•"'-. A 'RR-'Ti I Hanlan and Gaudaur have, made a match for May for a -purse of 301000 dollars and the championship of -America. They will both visit Australia afterward. I The welUknown clipper, ship ,Westlaud, of the Shaw, Savill. and Albion line, from Pert Chalmers for London., went ashore in the English ' Channel during a dense fog, and now lies in a critical position. 1 . Several. "Inyincitoles" have returned to Ireland.. *. .: .. .;.■;;*.; y -.- -...A'- "■'. sy: |i -The ßurmese chief W#pny r theTspba, has submitted to 1 the British.: y ; •-- y-. i : #lr ; Trevelyan,., in the; .course ;of- a. de-.: bate, condemned, the want of vigor shown byothe Government in; dealing with Ire*, land... . d*. •-.••v.; ; The. resignation of the Irish-Chief Secretaryship by Sir Michal Hicks-Beach is the subject of general comment. AThe press. expresses profound* symoathy with tbe right hon. gentleman, and regret at his unavoidable resignation. ■■'<-. -s.r. -The chief draughtsman at the Chatham Dockyard has been . dismissed for having sold designs te the American Government. ; Archbishop Croke explains that he never advised a . geaeral non-payment of taxes, by the Irish people. Wheat is firmer owing to extensive hull purchases at Kew York. St. Petersburg, March 7. The Moscow Gazette of to-day pub" lishes an article in which indignation is expressed at the execution of the prisoners implicated in the Bnstohuok revolt being carried out with the approval of Europe. It would not be forgotten that those men fell a sacrifice to their devo- j tion to Russia, and their deaths would j produce events which would set history in motion. j Berlin, March 8. Tbe bill to increase the German army during the period of seyen years has been read a first time in the Reichstag Rome, Much 8. Mon<ignor Banpolla del Tindar, Papal Nuncio at Madrid, will shortly replace the lute Cardinal Jacobini, as Pontifical Secretary of Slate.