CABLE NEWS.

Thames Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 8080, 27 June 1895, Page 4

CABLE NEWS.

(Pbess Association.)

London, June 25. Mr Gladstone on being interviewed said he did not intend to renew political work or assist in the general election. !

The New Zealand Midland Railway Company has convened a meeting of bondholders to protest against the attitude of the Government in resorting to the courts. ! London, June 26. China has concluded a convention

defining the northern boundary of the . French possessions in the IndoChinese Peninsula, making the Prench and Chinese territory contiguous from the Mekong to Laokai. France thus absorbs the territory required, to constitute a buffer state supposed to be set up between French and English possessions. Constantinople, June 26. As Turkey resents the desire of Bulgaria to interfere in Macedonia, the latter has re-called the envoy from Constantinople. The position is critical.

Sydney, June 26. Mr Davitt leaves for Ireland via San Francisco by the July steamer.

, Mrs Quodling, who claimed £10,000 for the loss of her husband in the Redfern railway accident, was awarded £2600. Dr. Maher claims £30,000 for injuries, on the ground that he is disabled and cannot practise.

The Dean Commission is likely to re-open to hear the evidence of some of the jurymen who convicted Dean. It is alleged that some of these express an opinion, that if they had heard the evidence given before the Commission they would have acquit ted the prisoner.

Adelaide, June 26. In the debate on the Address-in-Eeply the treaty entered into with New Zealand came in for severe strictures at the hands of the Opposition.

1 Melbourne, June 26,

The Premier says that although the colonies are not unanimous with respect to the Pacific cable, it may b assured that New South "Wales i willing to join with Victoria and Queensland in supporting it, and as Mr Ward's trip has probably impressed on him the. importance of the Canadian route New Zealand might be reckoned on to co-operate. The matter, he says, is one for investigation, and he suggests that the four colonies mentioned should appoint a commission to gather information as to the cost and probable revenue. «i