ADDITIONAL CABLE NEWS.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 657, 26 September 1884, Page 15

ADDITIONAL CABLE NEWS.

(age specials, per united press association). London, September 10. It ia reported that the British officials have removed the flagstaff and German flag which Dr. Nachtigal, the African explorer, recently forms l!y hoisted at Cameroon, the calling station cf fcbe African Steamship Company, on the west coast of Africa. The report has occasioned considerable excitement. The French fleet under command of Admiral Courbet is now coaling at Je3so or Matsmai, one of the largest Japanese islands in which coal of good quality is mined and exported. The Chinese declaration ef war against France is informal, as the Chinese Government has neglected to inform the Great Bowers of the step which they had taken. September 11.

The Russian squadron in Chinese waters has left Chefoo, a Chinese treaty port, opened for foreign trade in 1861, and it is believed that the vessels are to be employed a 3 a menace to China. It is rumored that Lord Carlmgford will resign his position in the Ministry as Lord President of the Council and Lord Privy Seal, and succeed the late Baron Ampthill as British Ambassador at Berlin. September 12. Earl Rosebery, yesterday, addressed the Trades Congress at Aberdeen, and referred to the importance of Imperial federation. He also expressed hia astonishment at the fact that in Victoria, where trade unionism is so popular, and has been carried out so effectually, no attempt has been made to give it a legal status. September 10.

A fund is now being raised towards the defence of the survivors of the yacht Mignonette, who are charged with killing and eating a boy named Parker, who accompanied them in the boat when the yacht was abandoned. The Times this morning asserts that the Crown has an undoubted right to all gold found in Victoria.