CABLE NEWS.

Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 12, 14 July 1885, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

Bl KLBOTBIO TKIiEQBJkFH. — OOPTWOB*. AN AUSTRO-GERMAN LEAGUE. RUSSIAN OUTRAGE ON A BRITISH SUBJECT. THE FORTIFICATION OF HERAT. [BFSCIU TO UNITED FBBSS ASSOCIATION.] (Received July 14, 1.10 a.m.) London, 13th July. An Auatro-German zollverein, or commercial league, is projected. The Russians have flogged a clerk in the employ of the British Consul at Kosli, a town thirty miles south of Samarcand. The cause of the outrage was the refusal of the clerk to divulge information regarding the English Afghan frontier agents. Fifteen thousand men, armed with breechloaders, will garrison Herat, and a large number of heavy guns are being sent there for the fortification of the town. RAILWAY EXTENSION IN AFGHANISTAN. RUSSIANS STILL MASSING AT SARAKHS. [KEOTKB'B TKUCOEJJtH.J (Received July 14, 1.10 a.m.) London, 13th July. It is announced that the Government have resolved to extend the QuettahPesheen Railway as for as the Kbojuk Pass, in the direction of Candahar. Intelligence from Central Asia states that considerable Russian reinforcements continue to advance on Sarakhs. Latest Intelligence. PROTEST AGAINST NEW SOUTH WALES BORROWING. [BPBOUX 70 UNITED PBHSB AMOOUTXOK.] (Received July 14, 1.45 p.m.) London, 13th July. Five leading city financiers have signed a strong- protest against the excessive borrowing of New South Wales, as over a million of the last loan was unplaced. Mr. George Simpson has started for Perth, to arrange with the Government of Western Australia for a land grant in aid of the proposed railway between Bunburg and Beverly, on the Albany route.