CALOGRAMS.

Thames Star, Volume XVII, Issue 5281, 21 December 1885, Page 2

CALOGRAMS.

[Beuteb's Telegbams.]

London, December 17.

The Australian mails dated Melbourne, November 7th, per Metisageries steamer Yarra, were delivered here to*day via Marseilles.

December 18.

The work of delineating the Busso* Afghan frontier has been brought to a standstill in consequence of the extremely divergent views of the representatives of England and Bussia regarding the inclusion of Uteruchak in the territory of the latter country.

Mr Gladstone announces that the article published in yesterday's Pall Mall Gazette is without foundation. He denies the existence of any such scheme as that attributed to him by the writer of the article, and disavows any intention of acting in the manner indicated therein. Mr Gladstone takes the opportunity of stating that the announcements in the newspapers that pretend to relate the line of policy he has determined to adopt are mere conjectures, as he has not as yet made known his intentions to any one. December 19. The Times to-day states that Mr Gladstone , has submitted to Her Majesty the Queen a plan for Jtbe re-estabiishment of an Irish Parliament, and it further announces that Her Majesty has referred the scheme to her Ministers for approval.

The Tongariro sailed from Plymouth for Auckland and Wellington this afternoon ; she will call at Teneriffe and the Cape of Good Hope en route.

The New Zealand mails, which left Auckland October 13th, were delivered here yesterday, via San Francisco, - two days before due date.

Constantinople, December 19,

Moukhtar Pasha, who was appointed Turkish Commissioner to Egypt, with Sir Henry Drummond Wolfl, has not yet left this city, the recent hostile encounters between the Soudanese Arabs and the British troops having rendered the AngloTurkish Convention a dead letter for the present.