CABLEGRAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 5325, 14 March 1879, Page 4

CABLEGRAMS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN. (Special to Press Association.) London, March 12fch. The Turks in Roumelia, being dissatisfied with the new Constitution, have risen in rebellion. Pesth, March 12bh. The town of Syegeden, in Hungary, has been inundated. There has been great loss of life, and 1000 families have been rendered homeless. Ihe Orphanage was laid in ruins, burying the inmates. . « INTERCOLONIAL. Melbourne, March 13th. At the Marquis of Normanby's levee yesterday, 1300 people were presented. Adelaide, March 13th. The steamer John Elder has arrived from London, but brings little later news, except that the Loft party in the French Chamber of Deputies had resolved to impeach the Broglie-Fourton Ministry before MacMahon resigned. All the Cape news had been anticipated, except that the Transvaal people demand their independence. Sydney, March 13tb. A banquet was given to Governor Robinson by the members of the Union Club last night. The Assembly passed a bill imposing a poll-tax of £1 on Chinese. The steamer Brisbane has arrived at Port Darwin with Chinese. She reports another thousand Chinamen now on their way, to arrive in about 10 days. The coal interests are jeopardised, Two thousand miners met at Newcastle, and unanimously supported tho associated collieries.