SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 6147, 30 July 1881, Page 5

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

[BY CABLE.] [kEHTER's TELEGRAMS.") GOODWOOD CUP. London, July 28. The Goodwood Cup, ■ value 300sovs., added to a subscription of 20sovs. each, h. ft., for. three-year-olds and upwards; two miles and a-half, 17 subs., was run to-day, and resulted as follows:— Mr. C Perkins , Madame Du Barry, Gyre. ' 1 Mr. Craven's Nottingham, syrs ... ..." .2 Mr. F. Grettoa'o Fernandez, 4yrs. . . 3 DESPATCHES RE NORTH AFRICA. London, July 28. ■ A Blue Book has been published containing the despatches which have recentlypassedbefcweenthe British, French and Turkish Governments, on thesubject of North African affairs, and inore especially in regard to Tripoli. In one of his despatches Earl Granville, the present Foreign Secretary; states that England will oppose any interference .by France in the affairs of Tripoli, and his Lordship further advises the' Porte to act with prudence in ita policy towards France, in regard to that province. In a communication by the French Government, M.. Barthelemy St. Hilaire makes reassuring statements, disavowing any designs on the part of France in regard to Tripoli.

MIDHAT PASHA SENT TO ARABIA. Constantinople, July 28. The Ulemas (the clergy and chief legal functionaries) having refused to confirm the sentence of death passed upon the murderers of Sultan Abdul Aziz, and the Turkish Ministers having, moreover, urged the Sultan to commute the sentence passed on Midhat Pasha and others found guilty of the crime, they have been deported to Arabia, where they will be detained in exile. •■....

ATTACK ON IvANDAHAR. Calcutta, July 28. Telegrams are to hand from Afghanistan announcing that. Ayoub Khan's army is crossing the river Helruund, some distance below Girishk, and has commenced its march on Kandahar. : .A. FARCICAL TRIAL. Cape Tows, July 28. The news to hand from Pretoria is that the trial of several Boers arrested for the murder of Mr. Malcolm during the war has resulted in their acquittal. The jury was composed of Boers.