CABLEGRAMS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 122, 1 June 1885, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

(BY CABLE.-COPYRIGI_T.)

The Proposed Gordon Memorial Hospital.

London, May 30.—The project which was sot on fool; to establish a hospital at Port Said as a memorial to tho late Gonoral Gordon has beon abandoned. The committee who hove charge of thesubscriptious are now considering to what uso the funds should be put.

General Graham on the Colonial Troops.

General Graham, in his despatches, commends the general order maintained by tho New South Wales contingent, and Bays that by their action a bright example has been shown of tho latont military strength

of tho Empire, and that tho soldierly spirit shown by them was a thoine of universal admiration.

Engliah Duty on C lonlal Wines.

Tho Agents-General for tho Capo of Good Hope and the Australian colonies have presented a joint petition to Mr Childers, Chancellor of the Exchequer, asking for a reduction of the wine duties, in view of the fact that a rupture has occurred in the negotiations for a commercial treaty with the Spanish Government.

Tho Gorman Emperor's Hoalth,

Behlin, May 31.—Tho latest bulletins regarding tho health of tho Emperor William stato that His Majesty is decidedly better.