BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1180, 16 September 1885, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

(Renter's Special.) London, September 13lh. The negotiations between England and Russia on the Afghan frontier question are making satisfactory progress, and it is announced that a joint protocol has been signed on the subject. Berlin, September llth. Count Hatzfeldt, Secretary for Foreign Affairs, has received a despatch from the Spanish Government re-stating the claim of that country to the Caroline Islands. The tone of the note is amicable, and the hope is expressed that Germany will recognise the Spanish claim. Bombay, September 12th. Great scarcity of food prevails at present in the Mysore district, and the authorities believe the recurrence of famine to be inevitable.

(SpcciaJ «o Tress Association,.) London, September 13th. In the four miles race between W. G. George, of Birmingham, and W. Curamings, of Paisley, the latter won. The Archbishop of Aix city, in the Department of Bouches-du-Rhone(France) has died from cholera. Egypt will enter the European Telegraph Conference, thus causing the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company a loss of nearly £70,000 annually. It is asserted in Madrid that Germany has occupied other important islands belonging to the Pelew, Caroline, Marshall, and Gilbert Groups. The wool market is weaker. Large reserves of old stocks are tending to aggravate the present depression. The increasing supplies which are being received from the upland districts of South America threaten a permanent reduction in the price of Australian merinos. The number of bales catalogued is 120,000, and the number withdrawn 21,000. The Egyptian Government have abandoned their intention of entering the Telegraph Convention, the Eastern Telegraph Extension Company agreeing to pay their transit dues. A German general has been arrested on a charge of spying at Belfort, a strong hovm of France in the department of the same name, and has been conducted to the frontier^