CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 30, 25 August 1887, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

i|By Electric J la | -rREUT^B'S •TKIEGE^IS.I ■-! \ Eebeivedi August 26, 12 50||Jm. Z ! newspaper, Mas Soleu, in"an<drticle discussing the New Hebrides question, suggests France should seek a recompense to England for the occupation of the latter. The desire for such recompense . is, Le Soliel declares, England's sole mohye in 'opposing the occupation. London. Au£.ust;24. The report fo hand yesteraayTfrom Afghanistan; Mery>^ of the> Ameer's Ulna's is l p¥oved t t6 5 h s aW ; b6en unfounded. s&} <■ - Cli^Sdon, August 23. " In the House of Commons to-day, Mr Labouohere asked the Secijetaryof jSfcate ior the colonies whiat .'action )Qi§ Government had taken relative ; tb°the French colonists who' had been sent to th)B Hebrides since th& occupation of that by the French Itrobps. >Ini reply, Sir James FflrgußßqnL)Said ; nothing had: be^en done to ■PF^ent. jsubjects £pf -either rEngland or France settling in the New^Heb'riiea' : •^' J^ ot tS? Bht 1 - W S4 pihermem-bers-of l^e Badical par%, 'will attend, the Nationalist meeting to be helff at Dublin ion Tuesday next^ to. protest against the proclamation under . the Grimes Act ;for j suppression o£ the National Leigue. -\ " The P. and O. S<^mßhip CpH^any are arranging excursion: tripa^ to Australia! on special 'terms. ' The retiirn saloon f fare hasbeen^fixed at 106 guineas. ? ' :1 ! -I The Bey. AlpKbiisus'' ; O'Neil sails i in September for Sydney ,i<wh"ere 7 ne win iniaugurate the Order of Passiomsts.; :r ' Prince Ferdinand explains, in rtrfeience ,tp, ,his, recent 'utterances on f the freedom. of Bulgaria, tkhat iie i did nofc, intend to imply the political indepentleiioe of tnat icountryv '- ; ; : -- l-^^:y-[ ;. '■< Mgtity 'GHadstomahs haye joined the Irish National iLeague; i > " r/ bi--.> . ■{ A sitormy- debate; is expected in' the House of ComnK>ns> on Thursday, on the : motion /that - Parliament sanctions the tarnation .oi^J the, "Irishc action of the Government JnWving Vital anie^dmynts^ihserted in the 1 Irish Land Bill? when that measure! Was 'before the^House'of Eords halfigiyen offence to the {Unions, several of whom have ; seceded,. •Bu-Ssia , is^ urging 'the Porle to drredtiy interfere' in the. election of Prince Ferdinand to: the Bulgarian throne; , r i ' l'M\ telegram - from \ Mery, reppi^ that ' newsi has -reached' there from Afghanistan ; that the. Ameer has had his: foot' amputated OTCmg;:to; .gangrene, and' 'that his ;l^e.is-endangered. >t .; f C[ , :7 y.r:^i u 'i ; '-; ; -' lia E«pubiic, F^ancaise, in an article i on i^eiNew Heißttdes that. an agreement may 'be easily arrived at if England would put a stop to the-absurd Australian calumnies and rhodOmontades. i England; and Germany haye divided New Guineja, ; and therejorevthe former ppuld v not j^ppposje, the annexation of Njewt Hebrides by France, although^she would be entitled to" guarantees against-trans-iportatibriof cbnvictßi i: -•:; : Berlin, August 23. 1 > Great interest >is being inanifesteb! by the merchantisjof this: city )in the steps which are being taken for the. representation of Grermany at the Melbourne Centennial Exhibition, and which haye : greatly improved trade between Germany anti Australia;' J> rV ~ ; ' J: !