CALOGRAMS.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4813, 12 June 1884, Page 2

CALOGRAMS.

Eeutee's Tele&bams

London, June 11.

It is understood that the order granted by the Court of Chancery for the liquidation of the Oriental Bank Corporation's affairs will supersede the decision recently given by Judge Molesworth in the Melbourne Supreme Court, whereby the Viotorian business of the Corporation was ordered, to be wound up locally.

In the course of a speech which was made at a meeting of the Eoj/al Colonial Institute last night, the Bight .Honorable W. E. Forster insisted strongly upon the necessity for maintaining the union between the mother country and the colonies, and deprecated any attempt on the part of the Imperial Government to shirk the duties which it owed to outlying portions of the Empire. London, June 10.

It has transpired that in the despatch addressed by Earl Granville to the Netherlands Minister for Foreign Affairs, His Lordship strongly insists that England's mediation should be accepted with a view to obtain the release of the crew, numbering twenty-fire men, mostly Englishmen, of tbe wrecked steamer Nisero, who have been held in bondage since November last by the JRajah of Tenour, in Sumatra.

In the House of Commons to-day, Mr Gladstone took occasion to deny the truth of the statements that have been made that it had been decided that Turkish troops should be despatched to pacify the Soudan.

Lord Edmund Fitzmaurice, Foreign Under« Secretary, in reply to a question in the House of Commons to-day, stated that diplomatic representations bad been made to the United States Government regarding the freedom allowed in America to persons assisting in dynamite plots in this country.