France.

Auckland Star, Volume XVI, Issue 3825, 13 November 1882, Page 2

France.

A great fire took place in the Boas hardware factory, BouJevjrd Charonnae, Paris, on Bth October, in which Col. Frevideran, second iv command of. the Fire .Brigade, was killed, ana several wounded.

Tho Queen of Madagascar refuses to recognise the rights ot France to that island, and energetic steps are to be taken with a view to their preservation. .Admiral Folhamas died October 7th.

A Paris newspaper credi's England with negotiating for the purchase of 200,000 Suez Canal delegation j-harcp.

The " Hopnbllque Frangaise" refuses to believe that Lord. Granvllle will ett aside the Egyptian control without. consulting Franco.

On tha (3th October seteral cases of A siatic cholera were reported at Modaue, on the French side or tbe Mont- Ccnis tunnel.

M«yer, of the Paris Gaulois, and Gaston Drejfus, fought a duel with swords, Ociobor 4th; Meyer was wounded in the cbcck and hand.

The official liquidator of the Union Gcncrale has taken proceedings to have tho augmentation of the capital of tho Union declared Tod, and to have the manager, auditor, and directors ma^c responsible for the deficiency of 20,000,000 fanes Au app-al written by Victor Hugo, deprecating the f xecution of ArabiPasha, is published in the P«ris psptrp. Adfspatch (October 17tb) from Montceau-los-Mincs reports that the gendarmes discovered 15 dynamite car'ridges, with Ji.httd Juse attached, hidden near a cchool-house. The fuso was extinguished without an explosion. 2000 troops have been stationed iv the neighbourhood of the town.