TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Independent, Volume I, Issue 62, 15 October 1885, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

CABLE NEWS. (own correspondent.) London, Oct 13. The Right Hon. Hugh Eardley Childers (Chancellor of the Exchequer in the late Government) addressed a meeting of his late constituents at Pontefract last night. Referring to colonial questions, he stated that he hailed with pleasure and approval the proposals for federation, and he expressed a hope that the forthcoming Indian and Colonial Exhibition would facilitate the discussion of the matter byleading colonists. It is expected here that the agreement arrived at by Sir Henry Drummond Wolff with the Grand Vizier of Turkey will result in a permanent settlement of the Egyptian question. It has been now definitely decided that the sentence of death passed upon Louis Riel, the Canadian rebel, shall be carried out unless the appeal that has been made to the Privy Council should result favorably to him’. Intelligence from the Continent in regard to the cholera epidemic slates that the ravages of the disease are decreasing in the vicinity of Palermo, and that In Spain the epidemic is diminishing In

In a speech at Blackburn, Lord Derby expressed a doubt whether the colonies would strongly care for closer relations with England than at present existing. The German Government reiterate their claims to Palow and other islands of the Caroline Group.