CABLEGRAMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2046, 20 July 1885, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

(by elecw.c telegraph—copyright , Reuter's Telkqkams. • St Petersbrru. July 18. The Journal de St Petersburg!), in an article to-day on the movements' of Russian troops in the vicinity of the Zulfikar Pass, states that they are of an unimportant character; and adds that Russia will do nothing likely to compromise the present negotiations for a peaceful settlement of tho frontier question. ' • Sydney, July 18. Owing to the uneasy feeling prevailing in England at the present time, the New South Wales Government have decided tb withdraw the projected loan of five and a half millions, London, July 17, Mr Ferdinand Rothschild has been elected member for Aylesbury, in the room of Sir Nathaniel Rothschild the late member, who has been raised to the peerage. Mr Rotlischild headed the poll by a largo majority, A deputation, headed by the Right Hon Robert Fowler, M.P., Lord Mayor of London, waited upon Lord' George Hamilton, First Lord of the Admiralty, to-day, His Lordship stated, in reply to the questions put by the deputation, that the Government had decided to reclassify the ironclads and discard those which were inefficient. He further stated that the Government would co-pperate with the various colonies In the lyork of defending their principal towns, London, July 18. It is announced that the EnglishAfghan Boundary Commission has encamped at a distance of seventeen miles northward of Horat,