CALOGRAMS.

Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5039, 7 March 1885, Page 2

CALOGRAMS.

ReUTEB's TeLSGBAMS London, March 5. The Marquis of Hartington, in the House of Commons to-day, confirmed the statements which have been current that it was proposed to increase the standing army, but added that the number of additional men was yet unsettlod. The Bank of Australasia has declared a dividend for the past half year at the rate of 14 per cent, per annum, and carried forward and placed'to the reserve fund £23,000. Delicate Questions ponding 1 with, Russia. After an interview to-day between Earl Granville and Count de Slaal, the Russian Ambassador, the Hon. Mr Gladstone made a statement in the House of Commons to the effect that a question of the greatest delicacy is now pending with Russia,and' deprecated any inquiries ori the subject. , '

[Specials to thj3 Peess Association] . - : London, March 4. A new Governor has been appointed to succeed Lord Augustus Loftus as Governor of New South Wales, but his name has not been disclosed. It is, howevor, understood that he occupies a high position, and fa wealthy. 180,000 salmon ova is to be shipped for New Zealand by tho Shaw, Saville, and Albion Od.'s steamer Arawa. The German Governu#nt intend to colonise that portion of New Guinea re cently annexed by them. The London Chamber of Commerce hare appointed a committee to confer with

the various shipowners with/egard to bills of lading. Should any of Murdoch's cricketiuf* toam visit England next year, they will be excluded from the Lords and Oval grounds, and probably from Nottingham. London, March 5. The Very Itev. Canon Walsh, D.D., President of Maynooth College, will suoceed the late Archbishop McCabe as Archbishop of Dublin.