LATE CABLE NEWS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 6738, 19 September 1883, Page 4

LATE CABLE NEWS

Tha following have appeared In the Melbourne Age, files of which ara to hand per Waihora :—

The latest intelligence from Anam is that 15,000 Chinese troops, who were recently reported as having crossed tha frontier, are now advancing on Haiphong, one of the French garrisuus in Anam. During the gale which prevailed along the south coast of England on Sunday, September 2, and Monday, the 3rd, the ship Ludy Jocelyn, the well-known New Zealand trader. Buffered considerable damage. She has put into Spithead for repairs. Le National, a political journal published at Pariß, expresses the hope that the French war-vessels Bruat and Destrees, which sailed from Noumea recently for the New Hebrides, will prevent Australia from apnoxing those ifllanda.

An investigation haa been made into the poisotiiug of a number of labourers who were working in a field near New Ross, County Wexferd. It now appears probable that the poiuoning was the result of an accident. ■ The Marquis, of Hartington has expressed his opinion that Franco has not satisfactorily explained the action of Admiral Pierre in detaining the captain and officers of the Dryad at Tamative. He thinks that a further and fuller explanation should be . insisted on.

Tho sovere weather which recently prevailed in England has destroyed one-third of the hop crops. The Government of Rußsia have dictated a series of reforms to be introduced into Iloumania.

General Hicks, leader of. the forces who have for some time past been engaged in the campaign against El Mahdi, the False Prophet of tho Soudan, is now advancing his troops with » view of recapturing II Obeid, the capital of Kordofan. The anti-European feeling which, recently manifested itself amongst the Chinese.residents of Canton, is rapidly spreading to other towns of China. At Hongkong the Chinese have assumed a menacing attitude towards the Europeans, and the situation is bo alarming that a complete panic prevails in that town. Englishmen at Hongkong are loud in their expression of indignation at the' absence of the. British squadron, as they consider the presence if the war-vessels is essential to their protection. The Times of September 9, referring to the action of France in' relation to the New Hebrides, appeals to the French Government to avoid a repetition of the outrages perpetrated by Admiral Pierre at Tamatave. Hanlan is impatiently awaiting a reply to his challenge to Laycock to row him' for £2000 on the Thames. The pretensions of Laycock to compete with Hanlan are generally ridiculed in England.