LATER ENGLISH NEWS.

Otago Witness, Issue 1324, 14 April 1877, Page 15

LATER ENGLISH NEWS.

(Per Wakatipti at Wellington. J Wellington, April 11th. . The Wakatipu arrived late last night from Sydney with Ceylon telegrams, which did not appear in the Australian papers till the sth. Constantinople, February 20th. The Shah of Persia has assured the Porte that the mission of his troops on the frontier is simply to punish the Turcomans. Midhat Pasha is staying at Naples. The decrease in Air Hardy's army estimates is due to nominal credit ' being- taken for -the whole payment by the Indian Government for the British troops serving in India. \ London, March Ist., < Among the notices of motion in the House of Commons is one by, Alderman M'Arthur;proposing to call attention to the state of affairs' in Ceylon in relation to ecclesiastical endowments. . ; March 3rd. '• Lord' Hamilton, in replying to a series. of. questions from Sir G. Campbell, said the title* of Kaiser, as applied to Her Majesty in India/ was Arabic, and not German. Mr Gerald Fitzgerald also, he said, had simply chosen to spend his year's leave in the Khedive's service in carrying out Goschen'a scheme for the re: oiganisation of the finances- of Egypt. ; 1 The reason assigned for the British fleet quitting the Pireus is +,hat the state of politics does not require its presence in the East. " ■ March sth. - The Chefoo Convention remains unratifiedj Lord Derby requested Sir Thomas Wade to prepare a memo, giving the reason for every concession made. > In the House of Commons, Sir Stafford Northcote, in replying to a question by Sir Hj Wolffe, said the first reduction in the Suei Canal dues had been postponed 'till the 15th ApriL The Canal Company, he' said, object^ , 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 share}holders. . | Mr Ward Hunt estimates the expenses of the navy for the coming year at ten and threequarter 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 nflfiners. ' ' ■'• ■ * 1