BRITISH & 3d FOREIGN.

Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 153, 8 May 1886, Page 6

BRITISH &3d FOREIGN.

London, April 28. — The Australian loan is expected to be floated at par. The men composing the outpost captured by the rebels near Suakim have been released. . The majority of the Australian cricketing team have arrived, the remainder being still on the Continent. The American fishing smack which was seized by the Canadian authorities off Nova Scotia has been released. ! Nelson, the New South Wales sculler, has bravely rescued a boy from drowning in the Thames. The Adelaide Court at the Indian and Colonial Exhibition is ready, and the New Zealand Court is in a forward 9tate. Australian pears are being sold at the Army and Navy Cooperative Stores for threepence each. The Treasury will cable the result o tenders for an ocean mail service when accepted. There is no prospect of a twenty-nine days' service being obtained. Samples of tea grown in Fiji are approved of by experts. London, April 29.— Four regiments of Indian troops have been sent to reinforce the troops in Burmah. An agreement with France in connection ■with the New Hebrides is considered imminent. It is generally believed that an agreement has been arrived at between Great Britain and Spain for an imposition of a duty of one shilling per gallon on wine not exceeding thirty degrees of alcoholic strength. „ ' The English cricket team, which visita the Australian colonies nexb season, will comprise Shaw, Shrewsbury, Lillywhite, Barnes, Briggp, Gunn, Flowers, Bates, Lees, Preston, Lohmann. W. G. Grace has been invited to accompany the team, which eails for Australia in September next. Jefferson Davis is delivering a series of orations in the Southern J-tates. Los DOS, April 30 —The exhibits* gent from Samoa for the Indian and Colonial Fxhibition have not been admitted. The first issue of shares in the North British and New Zealand Investment Company is £100,000, of which four fifths is already subscribed. The Fijian, a new steamer which has been built for the fruit trade between Sydney and Fiji, has been launched London, May 1. — The general result of the meetiug of the Liberal party is that it has decided to oppose that portion of Mr Gladstone's Irish proposals which provides for the exclusion of Irish members from the House of Commons. London, May I.— The New Zealand Midland Railway Scheme has been successfully launched. The "Standard" denounces the programme put forth by Sir J uliua Vogel, and argues that it is not safe to lend money upon it. The shipment of fruit received from Victoria by the Austral has been examined and found to be in excellent condition. It surpasses that sent by the John Elder London, May 2 — Moukter Pasha declines to modify his proposals regarding the Egyptian Army. London, May 3.— Tha European Powers are dissatisfied with the reply given by Greece to their united memorandum, and require a more precise promise as to the date of completion of disarmament. Moukhtar Pasha declines to modify his proposals regarding the Egyptian army. A league has been established in Calcutta to agitate for autonomy for India similar to that allowed te Australia.

Athens, April 28. -The Premier, M. Delyannis, replying to day to a deputation which waited upon him, stated that the Greek Government bad accepted the mediation of France on condition that the Powerß would accede to an early settlement of the claims of Greece under the provisions of the Berlin Treaty. M. Delyannis added that, unles9 the demands of Greece were satisfied, she would defy tne wishes of the European Powers. In response to the demands of the Powers, the Greek Government have issued a decree formally disbanding the first and second class Greek reserves The chips of the combined squadron, which recently left Pirceue, have returned to that anchorage. Athens, April 29.— M. De Lyonnis, in his speech to a deputation that waited upon him, announced that unless the claims of Greece were satisfied hia Government were prepared to go to war to enforce them. Rangoon, April 29 — Advices from Upper Burmah etate that destructive fires have occurred at Mandalay, resulting in the burning of a large portion of the city. It is believed the conflagration was the result of incendiary action.