LETER ENGLISH NEWS.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XX, Issue 3896, 12 April 1877, Page 2

LETER ENGLISH NEWS.

- WELLINGTON, April 11. The Wakatipu arrived late last night from Sydney, where she left on the sth. The following telegrams are to hand, which did not appear in the Australasian papers till the sth : — Constaotinople, Feb. 27. The Shah of Persia has informed the Porte that the massing of his troops on the frontier is simply td punish the Turcomans. ...... Midhat Pasha is staying At Naples. E6nd6jp, March 3 . ! The decrease iii Hardy's army estimates s is due td the ri6mirial credit bein" taken for the whole payment by the fndnn Government for British troops serving in : India. , Among the notices of motion in the • House of Commons is 6ne by Alderman : M 'Arthur, proposing id call attention to ' the state of affairs in Ceylon in relation to ecclesiastical endowments. March 3. Lord Hamilton, in replying to a aerie 3 of questions from Sir &. Campbell, said the title of Kaisar, as applying t^Jer Majesty in India, was Arabic, ana not German. Gerald Fitzgerald, he also said, had simply chosen to spend a year's leave in the Khedive's services in carrying out Mr Goschen's scheme for the reorganisan tion of the finances of Egypt. The reason assigned for the British fleet quitting the Piroeus is that the state of politics does not require its presence in the East. March 5. The Cheffoo convention remains unnotified. Lord Derby has requested Sir Thomas Wade to prepare a memorandum giving the reasons for every concession made. In the House of Conlmons, Sir Stafford Northcote, in reply to a question by Sir H. Wolff, said the first reduction in the. Suez Canal dues had been postponed till the 15th April. The Cahal Company, he said, objects to England voting, because the shares held by the English Government do not bear coupons. The Government protested against this objection, and declares its right to vote as shareholders. Mr Ward Hunt estimated the expense of the navy for the coming year at lOf millions. Mr Hardy, in presenting his army estimates, said that the condition of the ! army was excellent. He would shortly present a plan for the promotion and retirement of officers.