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¥+4 [REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. MR. GLADSTONE AND THE RUMOURED IRISH PARLIAMENT SCHEME. RUSSO-AFGHAN BOUNDARY QUESTION AT STANDSTILL. THE INCLUSION OF MERUTCHAK TERRITORY. COLONIAL WOOL AUCTIONS. THE ANGLO - TURKISH CONVENTION. (Received December 19, 9 p.m.) London, December 18. ' Mr Gladstone announces that the article published in yesterday's Pall Mall Gazette is without foundation. He denies the existence of any such scheme as that attributed to him by the writer of the article, and disavows any intention of acting in the manuer indicated therein. Mr Gladstone takes the opportunity of stating that the announcement in the newspapers and the present relative line of policy he had determined to adopt are mere conjectures, as he has not yet made known his intentions to anyone. The work of delimiting the HussoAfghan frontier has been brought to a standstill in consequence of England and Russia regarding the inclusion of Merutehak in the territory of the latter country. (Received December 19, 2.15 a.m.) December 19. Forty thousand bales of wool have arrived up to date for the next series of the colonial wool auctions, which commences on January 19th. The total probable quantity to be offered will be two huudred thousand over that of last sales. (Received December 21, 1 a.m.) Later. The Times to-day states that Mr Gladstone his submitted to her Majesty the Queen a plan for the repstablishment of an Irish Parliament, and further announces that her Majesty has referred the scheme to her Ministers for approval. The New Zealand Company's steamship Tongariro sailed from Plymouth for Auckland and Wellington this afternoon, and will call at Teneriffe and the dpe of Good Hope en route. Constantinople December 19. Mukhtar Pasha, who was appointed Turkish Commissioner to Egypt with Sir Henry Drummond Woolf, has not left that city, the recent hostile encounters between the Soudanese Arabs and the British troops having rendered the Anglo-Turkish Convention a dead letter for the present.
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Kumara Times, Issue 2875, 21 December 1885, Page 2
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