CABLE MESSAGES.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XIV, Issue 1827, 18 April 1885, Page 2

CABLE MESSAGES.

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LONDON, April 16. The Daily Telegraph's correspondent states that the Kussian reply to England says the Czar considers war would be deplorable, and hopes that prompt afi l angeme I nt£ may he arrived at for a pacific solution of fh& d-ifSculty. It is stated that the British Cabinet gladly accept the terms of communication. ■ Stocks are rising. The Shah of Persia offers England the" assistance of 40,000 troops. OD'lle c*ser iftsde by the Canadian Government in UiivciH iaisfi to send 3,000 men to the Soudan has bee'ti fsaevced, but this time the offer is for servicti in Afghani3tan. The Volunteer Reserve in India is 50,000 men. It is expected that the Admiralty will charter one of the New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers — probably the Tiimutaka or Kaikoura — as a cruiser. It has been decided to equip fifteen fast cruisers, to be stationed at the most frequented ports in the event of the outbreak of hostilities with Eussia. The P, and O. Company's steamer Valetta will be equipped for service in Australian waters. The Australian Federation Enabling Bill, introduced by Earl Derby, was read a first time to-day in the House of Lords. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princes 3of Wales were received with enthusiasm on their public appearance in Cork. The hostile demonstration mado by the Nationalists led to a riot, daring which revolvers were used and the troops charged with fixed bayonets. Several persons were wounded. The French Government have demanded that the French paper, Le Bosphore Egyptien, suppressed by the Egyptian Government for animadverting on the Government policy in the Soudan, shall be re-licensed. Nubar Pasha states that his Government were quite justified in stopping the paper. Sir Thomas Brassey, First Secretary to the Admiralty, states that the names of the vessels belonging to the Colonial navies will appear in theOfflcial Navy List. Mr Robert Nicholas Fowler, who was elected Lord Mayor of London in 1883, has been re-elected to that position in consequence of the decease of Lord Mayor Nottage. April 17. Persistent rumours have been current lately in political circles that a peaceful settlement of the Russo-Af-ghan difficulty had been effected. Up to the present time nothing of a tangible nature has transpired, in regard to the matter in question. In the House of Commons to-day-Mr Gladstone took occasion to deny a statement that has been circulated to the effect that Panjdeh had been ceded to Russia.

SUAKIM, April 16. The Scots Greys with a detachment of artillery and two guns and a squadros of lancers, advanced to-day without opposition as far as Otar "Wells, abont 20 miles from Suakim, on the road to Berber, and formed a zareba there.