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Western Star, Issue 1002, 25 November 1885, Page 2

Bishop Nevill has offered to give £2OOO towards paying off the debt on AU Saints* Church, Dunedin, provided the church is devotei to cathedral purposes. Mr Parnell has issued a manifesto to the Irish electors of Groat Britain, utging them not to vote for Liberal or Radical candidate* at the approaching general elections. L is generally believed in diplomatic circles that the combined European Powers will now intervene to prevent a continuance of hostilities in the Balkan Peninsula. The cable steamer Sherard Osborno has successfully accomplished the wor£ of laying a duplicate cable between Victoria and Tasmania. Mr R. C. Barker, M.L.C., of South Australia, believes that the French and Italian Governments will consent to a reduction in the charges made for the carriage of colonial mails via Brindisi. Tho Times, referring to Mr Gladstone's Midlotnian speeches, pro- j nounces them failures. i i3jJ&£ted that Prince Alexander lucent engagemoifi