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Mataura Ensign, Volume 7, Issue 366, 17 June 1884, Page 2

LATEST INTELLIGENCE

I i.r.. ; „j j ROUTER'S, , ,Cp£YRIGHT. | (Received June 19,11.^6 a.m.; -'"'- "" J .'.'a '.'■'. J);!.; \y . . BER^m/: Jute li, J In the Reichstag to-day, Prinoe Bismarck jwarmly advocated a proposal for a mail S6ervice to the colonies, "with ..Sydney as the 'terminus. The matter has- been, referred to ja committee of the House to report upon. Brussels, ' June li. I -v A new Belgian Ministry - has-, been iformed by the members of the Clerical party, which were recently returned to Parliament •with a large majority.! v. ./. ,':.[!. ;.'(>,'/ XOndok, June 14. The senior Wranglership of Cambridge this. ; year has been obtained by William Shepherd, son of Judge Shepherd, Queensland. : y The French Government have-, given [they English. Grovernment an assurance that ; France has no design upon'Moro'cco. ' .The ' Times ' to-day publishes a telegram 'from, itp correspondent at, Koro3ko, stating jthat the Mahdi, with" a 'force of thirty-five ) thousand men, is now marching 'against JDongola, and the Governor of that place (proposes to evacuate it without offering j resistance to the rebels. ; (Received June IG, 2.20 ■ p.m.) j Cape Town, June 15. ; Intelligence is to hand from- Zululand, | that the combined force of ,"Boers.and,TJsutus j who /recently invaded JDsibepu'sy ter ritpry 1 hay« ' kt'ta'ck'ed " 'and rou*te'd ' ' their enemy. I Usibepu fled/ and has . since, arrived at i Eovve. ' ' ' "