TELEGRAPHIC. LATEST CABLEGRAMS. HOME AND FOREIGN.

(special to mess association). LONDON. \ October 12, Canada offers the Cape Government men and money if the Imperial Govorn' ment refuse to assist them in stopping aggression by the Boers. The Marquis of Salisbury and Lord Kelso state that it is unlikely the Lords will recede from the position taken up by them in regard to the Franchise Bill. They consider that neither portion of the proposed reforms will be operative or have any legal effect if passed separately. The redistribution scheme published by the Standard utterly effaces the representation of the rural population. The Marquis of Hortington has admitted that tbe scheme published by that paper was drafted by a committee of the Cabinet. Information from Capetown states that the Cape Gorcrnment have annexed the Transkei. Major - General Scratchlcy lias received the appointment of High Commissioner of New Guinea. The damage done to the Parliamentary Buildings in Quebec by the rocont explosion of dynamite is so serious that fully half of- the building will have to be rebuilt. October 14. The Nord Deutsche Zeitung (North German Gazette) is of opinion that the limited protectorate established by England over New Guinea will result in an agreement with Germany, and it also expects that further agreements in regard to other portions of the Pacific, where English and German interests clash, will be made. News is to hand that 600 French troops at Tamsui were led into an auibusoade, when 20 of their number were killed and beheaded. The remainder managed to return to their ships in Bafety. The Frenoh have promised not to molest Shanghai if their countrymen are not molested. Eight Nihilists, including Vera Fillpara, who were arrested for being c cernad in various Nihilistic plots, have been sentenced to death.