CABLE NEWS.

Patea Mail, Volume X, Issue 1327, 27 March 1885, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

HOME AND FOREIGN [REUTER —COPYRIGHT. J LONDON, March 26. Frequent interviews have taken place

during the past few days between E;>rl Granville, Foreign Minister, Mnsivius Pasha, Turkish Ambassador, and Hassan Fehmy Pasha, Turkish special envoy. The fact has given rise to rumours that an arrangement is being concluded for an Anglo-Turkish alliance in the ’event of outbreak of hostilities between England and Russia. (Received March 27, 11. a.m.) Government has as yet received noanswer to the communication addressed!

by Granville to the Russian Foreign Office on 16th March on the subject of the Afghan frontier dispute. PARIS, March 26. The committee of the French Chambers, appointed in connection with tbe Recidivistes Bill, has selected French Guiana and New Caledonia as the places to which conyicts are to bo transported. : ALEXANDRIA, March 26. Zebehr and son and the other three prisoners, arrested on suspicion of having been in illegal communication with the Mahdi, are being conveyed to Gibraltar by H.M.S. Iris.r CALCUTTA, March 26. It is announced that General Sir Frederick Roberts, with a force of

25,000 men now being mobilised, will proceed without delay to occupy Bolan Pass. Troops to the number of 15,000 will be drafted from England to India in order to supply the place of the fcce. despatched to the southern Afghan frontier.