General Gordon Still Safe.-He Keeps Making Sorties.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 4421, 15 July 1884, Page 2

General Gordon Still Safe.-He Keeps Making Sorties.

1.0N1....N-July 15.— lii tho House of Commons to day* Lord Edmund Fitzinaurico, Under-iSocTctary for Foreign Allaire, anrum need th.it intelligence had reached tho Government that (ioneial Gordon is still at Khartoum, and holding his own against tli« be.-icgers, Tho garrison has made constant sallies frum the town with varying HU'IOPW. Cholcsy. in Egypt. AI.KXAMHiiA, .Inly 14. —An outbreak of cholera lino occurred her.;, but line not a present assumed alarming proportions. LiiNlhiN, July 14.— Tho discussion in the House ol Lords on Lord Wftiiyss's motion, propa-ing a rnnipioiui.-o on the friin'hUo question, lius been [io.-tp.iucd until Tlmrs- ">• (Kefeived July 15-2.2 C p.m.) Australian Cricketers at Leicester. I.ONIHIN, July 14. Thh Australian eriel.ttri-s | layed a match to-day at l.rin-.-trr against itu eleven uf the County, consisting of Hay, (.'. Marriott,.!. M. Marriott, Slono, .1. A. Turner, F. Turner, Hi.ttoinniu, Itylolt, I'aruhnm, Warren, and I". U'heelur. Orange Riots in England. T.om.un, July 14.—Serious rioting bo-twec-n Orangemen and Catholics has taken placo in Cumberland. Tlio lighting was very severe, and resulted in one man being shot, and 50 wounded. The disturbance was only quelled by.tho intervention of a large body of police. Tho Lords and tho Franchise London, July 14.—1 n the House of Lords, the Earl of Salisbury will oppose the motion brought forward by Lord \Vouiyw. Intelligence has been received that a number of Abyssiaian chiefs are about to visit England for the purpose of bringing an elephant to the Queen as a present from King Johannes. Mi- Cornwall, the Secretary of the Irish Post-oflicO| has been arrested, with a number of others, on charges of having committed unnatural crimes. The dentil is announced of the Right Rev. \V. Jucobson, Bishop of Chester, aged SI. Tho Franco-Chinese Dispute. Hong Komi, July 13, —Active parleying is now proceeding at Shanghai between the representative of the Chinese Government and M. Paternotre, tho French Minister to China, with a view to arrive at an amicable settlement of the difficulty which has arisen in connection with the attack on the French troops at Laugson, on the Tonquin frontier.