TELEGRAPHIC

Evening Star, Issue 7093, 23 December 1886, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC

HOME AND FOREIGN,

Argrs’ Special to Press Association.]

LONDON, December 22, (Received December 28,1886, at 11.16 a.ra.)

Comte da Sequier has been appointed French Consul at Sydney. ‘The Times’ asserts that the plan of the Irish campaign was drafted before the Chicago Convention, where it was secretly discussed and approved of. One hundred thousand sovereigns have been shipped to Australia. Mr J. Dillon, M.P., addressing a meeting of Land Leaguers, said that the plan of the campaign would be carried out in spite of the action taken by the Government, and it would end in destroying the power of the rack-renters and evicters.

LONDON, December 22. The Austrian Government have ordered from America 400,000 repeating rifles; delivery to be made in March. Turkey is massing her troops in Macedonia. ~ (Received December 23,1886, at 2.26 p.m.) The 100, OOOsovereignsshipped to Australia are for the National Bank. A further shipment for the Bank of South Australia will

shortly be made. Mr Anderson has been appointed temporary inspector and colonial manager of the Bank of South Australia at Adelaide, pending the appointment of a successor to Mr Vipont Howgate, Mr Norton, of Sydney, has had an interview with Mr Parnell, and intends to propose at Belfast that a National Convention shall be convoked in Melbourne or Sydney, similar to that which sits at Chicago, for the purpose of exciting sympathy with the Home Rule party.