LATEST CABLEGRAMS

Inangahua Times, Volume X, Issue 1541, 29 April 1885, Page 2

LATEST CABLEGRAMS

BY ELKCtRIC TKI E6RACJI— COPVRIOITT. (P^R RKUTKR'H ArtRNOV.) Received April 27th. 10.40 p.m. Sydket, 27. Arrived : Waihora, from Auckland. It is announced that the Government have offered the services of the New •South Wales Soudan Contingent to the British Government for employment in India, should occasion require. It is officially notified that the proclamation declaring the Western channel dosed for foreign vessels entering Port Jackson will take'eftect from tomorrow. The chanuel is closed as a precautionary measure for the defence of the city and port. Received April 28, 11.30. a.m. LoifßOK, 27. Renter's Agency announces on good authority from St. -Petersburg thut in^ that city war is considered inevitable. The Czar will leave to-day for Moscow, where His Majesty will issue an Imperial manifesto regarding the present crises. The Times to-day publishes a telegram,from St. Petersburg seating that England has proposed to the Russian Government that the whole eirouna ' ;

stances in connection with Penjdeh, and the recant hostilities there be submitted to arbitration. Eeceived April 28, 1.30 p.m. Lonbon, 27. In the House of Commons to-day Lord Edmund Fitzniaurice. Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs, stated that the Botphore Eqyptienne difficulty was on the point of keing settled on a basis satisfactory to England, France and Egypt Gladstone subsequently moved for a vote of credit «f £11,000,000. for military preparations, notice of whioh had not been previously given. Received April 24, 1.45 a.m. St. Petersburg, 27. The Moscow Gazette in an article to-day on the Anglo-Russian difficulty strongly urges that Russia should effect a peaceful settlement with England on the Afghan frontier question. Cairo 27. In vieit of the rupture between France and Egypt in connection with the suppression «f the Rosphore Egyptienne, the French Minister and Consular official* left this city to-day, ostensibly for the purpose of returning to France, hut for the present they remain at Alexandria, pending the parleying which is proceeding. - In political circles it is believed that a compromise will be effected and that I diplomatic relations will be resumed. Melbourne, 27. The English mails, March 20, arrived this morning per Peninsular and Oriental R.M.S. Thames.