The New Hebrides.
LONDON, Fed. 22. The Bank rate of interest is 2 per cent, the market rate being I|, or 5 lower. The wool market is dull of tone so far; 120,000 bales are to hand for next sales. The mails, ex Massilia, from Melbourne, Jan ', 14, were delivered to-day via Naples.
CAPETOWN, Feb. 22. The lonic sailed last night for New Zealand ports.
LONTtON, Feb. 23. lord Randolph Churchill addressee! a public meeting at Belfast last night, His lordship was accorded a most enthusiastic reception. In the course o£ hia speech Lord Randolph fervidly appealed to the men of Ulster to resist to the utmost any attempt to -separate Ireland from Great Britain. •'Arrived, jClaribel, from Auckland (Sept. 19). .•In the House of Commons last night the Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, in reply to a question, stated that the Franco-German agreement regarding the disposal of the New "Hebrides in no way affected the Anglo-French agreement. Ho added that the Australian Colonies had forwarded despatches strongly objecting to .any abrogation of the latter agreement, and concluded by an- ~ nouncing that Government was corresponding with the various Colonies on the subject.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5551, 24 February 1886, Page 4
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191The New Hebrides. Star (Christchurch), Issue 5551, 24 February 1886, Page 4
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