LATE CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 85, 24 January 1889, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

By Electric Uelegrapfr.— Cbpyrigife, JFKB a»ITKD-»E::8» ASSOCIATION. \ London. January 22. The Bkm Stewart Saville has-been-appointed* Aide-de>€?amp to Lord Onslow.

The Freemasons will give a banquet ;o Lord Obslow before his departure^ ior New Zealand;.

Germany r England, aqd America» have agreed on the course of action tobe taken in; Samoa. - .

The Financial Newa asserts fehat thfr relationship between certain banksand investment companies m the-Aus-tralasian colonies is utterly unsound^ and positively dangerous-. D. Sheehy, M.P. for Galway Bouth r has been' arrested- at (M&sgow wx. * charge of inciting. ' ■ Correction — New Zealand^ Sour r 26/6 not 31/-, as previously q/uotod. Tenders were opened to-day for theVictorian loan at 3£ per cent. Therowere 370 tenderer^ and 6£ millionswere subscribed. The largest tender was f or. .£&WißWau& the* highest priceoffered waa £104-2/6, the lowest being. £100.; Tenders at> LI O3- 2/-, receive 20 per cent. The official average isLlO3 6/. The loan is already quotedat a premium ot &Bth».

Hobart, January 23; TheKaikoura brought 6sAiustra~ liaa and 83. New Zealand passengers.. She Bailed for New Zealand at 11 a.m-to-day. . ■"■'' Caibo, January 2V. News has been received here that the Mahdi's rival, Elsenouissi,. hascaptured the capital of Darfour, andr is marching on Khartoum. I Berlin, January 22. The Koluische Zeitung continues topublish documents in which a^cpn* nection between Sir B. Morier and Professor Geffcken is sought to b» established. ' Washington, January 22. The American gunboat. Vandalia> has been despatched from San Francisco to Samoa. :::, - -; Pabis, January 22. M. Trepple complained in theChamber of Deputies that Chili had been allowed to annex Ea&ter ■ Island, and Great Britain' Raratonga, Eemitaru, and Burutua.. AdmiralKrantz, Minister of Marine, replied that Easter Island was valueless a&a naval station and Earatonga had never belonged to> France. He must, however, ask Great Britain to surrender the other Islands,, on the ground that they are depend^ encie.B of Tahiti, M. Trepple 'insisted that the Government had been, guilty of neglect and incapacity in allowing; British extension in Oceania. . ■

Received January 24,11 a.m. Paris, Jannary 23. In the course of a debate on the Army Bill in the Chamber, of Commerce (?) M. de Freycinei* French, Minister of War, stated he kad secured three million' men for active service should the occasion £g§iiiire. it. The Directors ef the Panama Canal. Completion Company have invited the *\ public to subscribe thirty ■ 4mllion» ' francs by February 2. " -^ In the Chamber of Deputies, Admiral Kranz, Minister of Marine, in reply to M. Freppel, stated that theannexation of Penryrva Islands (Ton* gaway) by England was not yet an accomplished fact. ■ M. Freppei again coruplained of the administration of affairs in the Pacific, and contended that French interests in tbe New Hebrides had been sacrificed to the advantage of England, which country had made the most of French somnolence, to retrieve their blunder in'not previously securing the islands in th» Eastern Paoifio. _ ; . .•• Zakzibas, January 22. The Arabs have intimated: tb th» German authorities that the evacuation of the coast by Germany is necessary before the missionaries, bow ia custody, are released. ","...:. p -„ 'Berlin, January 22. -.-, The Committee of the Federal Council have passed the East African Company BilU