CALOGRAMS.

Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5023, 17 February 1885, Page 2

CALOGRAMS.

Beuteb's Telegkams

Hongkong, February 16. The French occupy Langson.

Intelligence is to hand that the French troops have occupied Langson, in Tonquin.

Specials to the Pbess Association]

London, February 13,

England will re-consider tho question of the allotment of the cost of the New Guinea protectorate.

Mr Reginald Brett will manage the London branch of bis Financial Company, no debentures in which shall be issued for the present.

The National Zeitung states that Germany will not yield the Huon Bay, New Guinea, which England recently annexed. The Daily Telegraph is of opinion that Germany is certain to disavow the recent seizure of land in Samoa, by Dr Stubel, the German Consul there, as such seizure was merely the act of a subordinate. Mr Foreman, who is the Australian delegate at the Poital Convention, is at present in Lisbon, watching the course of events in connection with that Convention. N Colonel J. Fletcher Owen, the new military commandant at Adelaide, will sail for Australia in March. Captain Rhodes, submarine mining engineer, has been selected.for the same employment in Victoria. Mr J. C. Bray, ex-Premier of South Australia, accompanied by his wife, are at present the guests of Lord Eosebery. London, February 15. Dynamite Plot to Blow up Nottingham Castle. A plot to destroy Nottingham Castle by dynamite has been discovered. s Bishop Vaughan, of Salford, has denounced the recent outrages by dynamiters as of a most diabolical character.

One of the two large passenger steamers ordered by Messrs Kiddart and Parker for their Victorian line of steamers has been successfully launched at Newcastle* on Tyne. She has been named the Surrumbete. ,

Dr Taylor, the editor of "Science Gossip," will sail for Australia on April Bth by a Messageries Alaritimes steamer.

Mr Wright, barrister, of Fiji, has been appointed Oommisioner to enquire into the German claims in Fiji. The enquiry will commence this week. Hon. J..8. Thurston will watch English interests, and Mr Sahl German interests. The cases of Sab], Sederminn, Pteffer, and Pflumgcr are the only cases that will be considered. After the conclusion of the enquiry, Mr Thurston and Dr Karnel, German ConsulGeneral at Sydney, will draw up a report on the Anglo German interests in Fiji.

The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts has voted £1000 towards the establishment of the Bishopric at Fiji. T It is reported at Berlin that England has yielded to Germany regarding the disputed boundaries in New Guinea. The World Exhibition at New Orleans is pronounced a complete failure. Germany is taking steps to raise a colonial army. Earl Spencer, while out hunting, was thrown from his horse and broke his collarbone.

The Recidiviste Bill was passed by the French Senate by an immense majority.