CABLEGRAMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1931, 5 March 1885, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

BY ELECIR'.C TKLEQRAVH—COPYRIGHT. Ileum's Telegrams, London, March 3, The Orient R.M.S. Austral, from Melbourne (January 23) has arrived at Plymouth. Berlin, March 3. It is announced that Germany has assumed a protectorate over the territory I hitherto held by the Colonising Society,' situated to the westward of Zanzibar, on the African Coart. London, March 3. In the House of Lords to-day the Earl of Granville stated that the Government have received information that the Russians in Central Asia have occupied the Zulfikar Pass of the Hindu Khoosh mountains, and have advanced to within a fow miles of Pauj-deh in Afghanistan; also that Sir Peter Lumsden, the British Commissioner on the frontier question, had advised the Afghans to resist any further advance on the part of the Russians, His Lordship added that the Government have urged the Russian Government tq prder its commandors to halt and make no, further enroaohment on Afghan Territory. London, March 2, Consols have declined to 99§. New Zealand securities aro unchanged. * Colonial breadstuffs.—Adelaide wheat, 30s j Adolaide flour, 255; New Zealand wheat, 29s to 345, all ex store, Tallow—Australian average quality, 39s for bocf, 34s for mutton. The stock of tallow in London to-day is 17,300 casks. Tho mutton ox steamship Garanno has arrived in good condition, The Melbourne portion of the meat is realising 4Jd to 4f d, and that from Sydney 4d. Sydney, March 4, Parliament has been summoned to meot ontholfthinsfc. Melbourne, March 4. Sir William Jervois will shortly proceed on a visit to Adelaide Adelaide, March 4. Sir William Jervois arrived here to-day from Melbourne, Per Merchant Shipping and Underwriters' Association ;—London March 3. The Steamer Braemar bound from Glasgow to Port Chalmers, which was dismasted and put into Stornoway, has been towed into Greenock for repairs, Adelaide, March 4, Arrived—Orient RM.S. Potosi with English mail (January 20.) Melbourne, March 4, Sailed, this afternoon—Steamship Waihora for Bluff. London, March 4. _ The Anglo-German Commission to adjudicate upon the claims of German subjects in Fiji, and upon the working of the Western Pacific, will assemble without delay. Mr J. B. Thurston, Colonial Secretary for Fiji, will act as British Commissioner. Diplomatic relations between England and Germany are at present somewhat strained in consequence of the contents of the English Blue Book and the German White Book on Colonial affairs recently issued, Bismarck, it is understood, complains of the publication in the Blue Book of the report of the interview which took place between himself and Sir Edward Malet, British Ambassador, Telegrams for Berlin state that Norde Deutche Zeitung, referring to the English Blue Book, says that the publication of the interview was malevoand can only put an end to all confidential parleying.