CABLE NEWS. THE TRANSVAAL DIFFICULTY—RECALL OF GENERAL ROBERTS.

Evening Post, Volume XXI, Issue 71, 26 March 1881, Page 2

CABLE NEWS. THE TRANSVAAL DIFFICULTY—RECALL OF GENERAL ROBERTS.

THE EU33IAX3 IN CENTRAL ASIA. BECALL OP THE TURCOMAN EXPEDITION. IBEUTERS TELEGRAMS. I London, 24th March. It is announced that orders have been telegraphed from the Horse Guards to General Sir Frederick Roberta, at the Cape, instructing him to return to England without proceeding to the Transvaal, in accordance with instructions issued to him on his departure from England. A motion similar to that recently passed i by the House of Lords in favor of the retention of a British force at Candahar, is now being debated in the House of Commons. In the House of Commons to-day a qnes. tion was put to the Under-Seoretary of State for Foreign Affairs with the object of ascertaining whether the Government were in possession of information as to the intentions of the Bussian Government in regard to Central Asia. In reply, Sir Charleß Diike stated that the Government had learned that one of the first acts of the Czar, Alexander HI., had been to definitely recall General Skobeloff and order the permanent cessation of hostilities against the Turcomans. Per Merchant Shipping and Underwriters' Association : — Arrived : Waipa, from Port Chalmers, 24th December. There is little enquiry for best sides of Australian hides, and prices are id lower. At the wool sale to-day 9000 bales were catalogued, and the tone of the market continued firm. 21,000 bales have been withdrawn from sale sinoe the opening.