The Waterloo Cup.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5549, 22 February 1886, Page 4

The Waterloo Cup.

Status of Colonial Troops.

{Spesoiai. to Press Association.] LONDON*, Fed. 19. The Waterloo Cup was run to-day, and was won by Miss Glondyne, who divided tho stakes last year with Bit of Fashion. Penelope was tho runnerup. In an interviow with a representative from the Pall Mall Gazette, re the new mail service to Australia, Mr _R. C. Barker, of South Australia, expressed tho opinion that a 29 days' service would bo too expensive. In tho House of Commons, Mr Heuniker Heaton has tabled a notice of motion to the effect that itj is desirable all the Colonial forces should be placed under the control of i the War Office, and that they should | receive similar rights and privileges j to those bestowed on the Imperial forces, and also that it sho-ild be ascertained from the Colonies whether they would be willing to contribute to the cost of such a proposal. Mr Heaton has further giveu notico that it ia desirable that a cable to be i controlled by England should bo laid,i via the Cape, lo Australia and India. Feb. 20. The wheat market is unchanged, and the supplies from foreign ports are only moderate. The Otago Wool-growers' Company has been registered, with a capital of one hundred thousand pounds. Sir Charles Dilke's Chelsea Committee accept his denial to the charges brought against him in the divorce suit, Crawford v. Crawford. Count von Moltke is recovering from his recent sovero illness. M. de Freycinet, the French Premier, now agrees to accept the Bill introduced by the Extremists, by which power is given for the expulsion of the Princes from Franco. Mukhtar Pasha, the Turkish Commissioner in Egypt, proposes that a force of 9000 Egyptians should occupy Dongola. The English Press arguo that Ireland has now virtually abandoned the Irish National League. A newspaper published in Amsterdam states that Great Britain purposes to parley with Germany for the cession of certain territory in New Guinea, lying to the westward of the Fly Eiver. An influential deputation has waited on the Homo Government, urging that a permanent loan should he floated for tho purpose of encouraging State emigration, the emi<:*'*ants re-paying the money advanced by easy instalments. J Fr*n. 21. Mr John Morley, tlio newlyappointed Chief Secretary of Ireland, will not permit tho military evictions of Irish tenants. Twenty applications havo been received for the chair of Professor of Physics at tho Sydney University.

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__ _ , , MELBOURNE, Pbb. 20. Mr Derham has accepted the portfolio of Postmaster-General in the new Ministry.