CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 35, 10 September 1887, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

[By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright ] [eeuteh's telkgeams.7 London, September 8. In proposing the Navy Estimates in the House of Commons to-day, :Lorci George Hamilton, First Lord of the Admiralty, stated it was net intended -:to" construot more ironclads at presentp-be.-cause Great Britain's navy was considered i» be 'Supreme in- this respect. ; : ■::.-:". The Daily News says it is expected that Australia will remit .£2,000^000 worth of gold to America in the autumn. Bey. Mr Barclay, of Montreal, has been ,j offered the pastorship of Scots Church, Melbourne. j It is reported that large shipments of i gold have been made from Australia to New York direot. The French Press declare that the rapidity with which mobilisation, . operations at Toulouse were carried out, proves the readiness of J;he country for war. An extensive, military revolt is feared in Bulgaria. : Severe, storms .in" England have seriously^.damaged the hop cfbpsj, and the estimated jield in England and on the Continent will be barely half of that of last year. _ . % ;". ; - One, hundred t and ninety, lives were lost ia "the Exeter, fire. Sixty of the bodies could Tiot be identified, being merely calcined- remains. > \ Sofia, September 7 v ' The Porte notifies to Bulgaria that in consequence of the collapse of the Russian Government pcheme tha| General Ernoth should become sole regent, the Turkish Government., has made inquiries as to the views of the Russian Govern- | ment under the altered circumstances, and has despatched a fresh circular note to the Powers regarding the 'settlement of affairs in Bulgaria. ' : Paris, Septomber 8. The Journal des Debats, in its issue of to-day, confirms the announcement recently made by Le Temps, that a settlement of. the New Hebrides question may, be expected shortly after the recess ; but adds that M. Fleurens, Foreign Minister, makes the New .question dependent upon the neutralisation of-'the Suez Canal, which . the Journal states, has been nearly settled. , /