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[REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] I!v Electric Telegraph—Copviught. •-•■•— THE GERMAN EMPEROR'S BIRTHDAY. DEPARTURE OF THE ENGLISH PRINCES FOR BERLIN. THE AFGHAN FRONTIER. REDUCTION OF BANK OF ENGLAND RATE OF DISCOUNT. FRANCO-CHINESE WAR. THE RUMOURED MEDIATION OF GERMANY. NEGOTIATIONS FOR AN AMICABLE SETTLEMENT. DISASTROUS COLLIERY EXPLOSION AT SAARBRUCK. 200 MINERS ENTOMBED. THE AFGHAN QUESTION. CLEARING THE WAY FOR PARLEYING. (Received March 20, 1 a.m.) London, March 19. Their Royal Highnesses the Priuce of Wales, the Duke of Edinburgh, and Prince Albert Victor started to-day for Berlin, to attend the festivities to be held in connection with the celebration of the Emperor William's birthday. It has transpired that Mr Gladstone in November hist demanded that the Russians should withdraw their troops from Serakhs, on the Afghan frontier, but the Russian Government refused, and the demand thereupon lapsed. (Received March 20, 11.20 a.m.) Evening. The Bank of England has reduced the rate of discount to 3-| per cent. An authoritative denial has been given to the report current yesterday that Germany had offered to mediate between France and China; and it is announced thai Patrenotre, the French Ambassador to Pekin. has been authorised to negotiate with the Chinese Government for an amicable settlement of the difficulty. March 17. Arrived, at Plymouth, the P. and O. steamship Ballarat, from Melbourne, (Jauuary 29). The New Zealand Shipping Company's Royal Mail steamship Kaikoura left Teneriffe this morning for Wellington, via tho Cape. (Received March 20, 1 a.m.) Bkrlix, March IS. A disastrous mining explosion oc-
cm-red to-day at Saarbriick, in Rhenish Prussia, by which two hundred miners were entombed. (Received March 20, 1 p.m.) St. Petersburg, March 19. The semi-official Journal de St. Petersburg states that Mr Gladstone's recent declaration regarding the AngloRussian situation had cleared the ground for parleying of a pacific character.
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Kumara Times, Issue 2663, 20 March 1885, Page 2
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