NEWS OF THE WOULD.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5808, 15 July 1885, Page 2

NEWS OF THE WOULD.

GABLE MESSAGES. [reuter's copyright telegrams.] ARRIVAL HOME OF ARAWA. London, July 13. Shaw Saville aud Albion Company's steamship Arawa, from Lyttelton (June 6th), arrived at Plymouth yesterday evening. Her cargo of frozen, meat is iv good condition. GARRISONING HERAT. Fifteen thousand men, armed with breech-loaders, will garrison Herat, and a large number of heavy guns are being sent for the fortification of the town. RUSSIAN OUTRAGE ON A BRITISH OFFICIAL. The Eussians have flogged a clerk in the employ of the British Consul at Kesh, a town 30 miles south of Satnarcand. The cause of the outrage was the refusal of the clerk to divulge certain information regarding the English Afghan frontier agents. GERMANY AND NEW GUINEA, The German Government have ordered the German station at Bentley Bay, New Guinea, to be abandoned. THE PROPOSED BOMBAY EXHIBITION. The projected Exhibition, to bo held in Bombay, has collapsed. THE RECIDIVISTS QUESTION. The interview between the Hon. Colonel Stanley, Secretary of State for the Colonies, and the Agents- General on the recidiviste question, will take place on Tuesday. AUSTRO. GERMAN ZOLLYEREJ.N. An Austro German Zollvereiu or Commercial League is projected. WAR VOTE ASKED FOR. London, July 14. The House of Commons last night voted the supplementary credit asked for by the Government, the Eight Hon. Minister for War (Mr. W. Smith), urging it was needed to complete the necessary preparations pending the settlement with Eussia, i Mr. Smith added that the Government were not prepared to accede to i the demands made by Eussia to their predecessors in office. AXGLO-EUSSIAN DIFFICULTY NOT SETTLED. The Eight Hon. Eobert Bourke informed the House that so far no arrangement had been completed for the arbitration between England and Eussia on the Alghan Frontier Question, but that the state of the case put forward was still under discussion between the two countries. MAIL DELIVERY. Mails ex Peniusular and Oriental Company's steamship Clyde, dated Melbourne, Juno 2ud, were delivered here to-day, via Brindisi.