CALOGRAMS.

Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5089, 9 May 1885, Page 2

CALOGRAMS.

[ReUTEB's TeLEGBAMS]

London May 8. The death is announced, at the age of 68, of Earl Dudley.

[Specials to the Pbess Association.]

London, May 6

It is reported that tbe Australian contingent will come to London to await orders.

A cable is being laid (o Port Hamilton.

A Press Association message says : The Canadian forces have defeated the Indians at Battleford, the latter losiDg fifty men.

Twenty thousand of all classes have signed the memorial thanking tbe colonies for tbeir generous offers of assistance in the Soudan.

The Ect. William Webber, Bishop of Brisbane, tv ill be consecrated on the 11th June.

The Victorian four million four per cent, loan is announced. The minimum is fixed at £99, and| tenders will be opened on the 13th inst.

The Queensland four and a half million four per cent, loan has also been placed in the market, with a premium of £97. Tenders will be opened on the loth inst.

The Standard considers that the Queensland and Victorian loans just announced will hardly be felt in the present condition of the money market.

Earl Granville has thanked Mr J. B. Thurston. the Colonial Secretary of Fiji, for his services in connection with the recent Commission of Enquiry into the German land claims in that island.

A firm of eminent engineer contractors nave ojrerea~to—p^rT-ui»_tk^_«anooß«u«j):. capital for the construction of a large ocean deck at Adeliade, if the local committee approve.

Lord Agustus Loftus, Governor of New South Wales, has written an article in the Pall Mall Gazette, in which he suggests that a Council, similar to the Austrian Eeichsratb, should be formed on a basis of federation.