FOREIGN & COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 3258, 6 March 1885, Page 2

FOREIGN & COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN CABLE.

(PerEIECTKIOTeIiEGRAPH. — COPTEIOHT.) (Reutek's Agency.,) [Received 1 p.m., March sth. J Bombay, March 4. Preparations are being made for an imposing reception of the Ameer of Afghanistan on his visit to India next month. Washington, March 4. President Cleveland delivered an inaugural message to Congress to-day, on assuming office. The speech re-affirms the principle of the Monroe doctrine, and urges avoidance of entangling alliances with other countries. It recommends a reform of the Civil Service, the granting of equality of freedom, the repression of polygamy, and exclusion of the Chinese from the United States. (Received 11 a.m., March sth.) London, Maroh 4. The Anglo-German Commission adjudicates upon the claims of German subjects m Fiji, and upon the working of the i Western Pacific. It will assemble without delay. Mr J. B. Thurston, Colonial Secretary for Fiji, will act as British Commissioner. Diplomatic relations between England and Germany are at present somewhat strained, m consequence of the contents of the English Blue Book and the German White Book on colonial affairs, recently issued by Bismarck. It is understood he complains of the publication m the Blue Book of the report of. an interview which took place between himself and Sir Edward Malet, British Ambassador, and telegrams from Bsrlin state that the Nord Deutsche. Zeitung, referring to the English Blue Book, Bays the publication of the interview was malevolent, and can only put an end to all confidential parleying. (Received 5 p.m., Maroh sth.) Consols have . further declined by I, and are now quoted at 97 £. New Zealand securities are unchanged, viz. : 5 per cent 10-40 loan, 104^; 4§ per cent 1879-1904 loan, 103 ; 4 per cent inscribed Dtock99£. . The markets for colonial breadstuffc and tallow are quiet, with quotations unchanged. | Received 8 p.m. Maroh sth.] The Shaw-Savill and Albion Company's steamship Arawa, from New Zealand (left Wellington January 21st), arrived at Plymouth last evening. Her cargo of meat is m good condition. Bombay, March 4. A formal reception by the Viceroy, of the Amear of Afghanistan, will take place at Hassan Abdool, m the Pnnjaub, where 20,000 troops will be encamped for the occasion. The ceremony will be attended with much splendor and eclat. (Special xo the Pkess Association.) [Received 11 a.m., Maroh sth.l London, March 4. Mr Gladstone is still m a weak condition, but his health is improving. The frozen meat ex Orient Steamship Austral has arrived m good condition. - General Glover Cleveland. was installed as President of the United States to-day. The German annexation of the territory adjacent to Zanzibar, ousts the Glasgow Colonising Company who previously occupied it. [Received 2.15 p.m., March sth. | A new Governor has been appointed to; succeed Lord Augustus Loftus as Governor of New South Wales, but his name has not been disclosed. It is however, understood, that he occupies a high position and is wealthy. "..'.'., A hundred and eighty thousand salmon ova are to be shipped for New Zealand by the. Shaw-Savill and Albion Company's steamer Arawa; •...-,;. • ; The German Government intond to colonise that portion of New Guinea recently annexed by them. .■-- '. The London Chamber of Commerce has' appointed a committee to confer with the: various shipowners- with) regard to bills of lading. .... .-.•_•..: : fl The cargo of frozen meat . <■ by the steamer Arawa is m splendid condition. Should any of Murdoch's cricketing team visit England next year they will be excluded from Lords and the Oval grounds, and probably' from Nottingham.' (Reoeived 0.45 a.m., Maroh; sth.) ''.' | London, March 5. j Count Herbert Biamarck, Acting Under-Secretary of State, • is parleying jrith Lord Granvillo. ,;■ ] It, is proposed to increase the English army by fifteen thousand men. I ; The Very Rev. Canon Walsh, D.D.i President of Maynooth College, will succeed the late Archbishop McCabe as Archbishop of Dublin.