TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Independent, Volume I, Issue 71, 7 November 1885, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

CAtiljiii NEWS

(own correspondent.) London. November 3. The result of the annual municipal elections shows that the majority are Tories. The further emigration of Germans to New Guinea will be discouraged after the end of this year. Nov. 5, The Marquis of Salisbury addressed a public meeting at Lambeth last night. In the course of his speech he referred to the question of reciprocal tariffs, and pronounced himself in favor of reprisals against those countries which refused reciprocal tariffs, and further urged that the duties now levied should be reduced in favor of goods imported from the British colonies.

There is a very severe tension between the Liberals and Radicals, but it is expected that the coming Midlothian speeches of Mr Gladstone will tend to smooth away differences between the two parties. In the event of King Theebaw submitting to the ultimatum sent him by Mr Bernard, Chief (Commissioner in Britisu Burmah, his territory will be placed under the protection of Great Britain. In consequence of the serious state of affairs the British residents are leaving Mandalay, the capital of the Burmese Empire. King Alfonso of Spain is seriously ill with fever, Madras, Nov. 4. Major-General Prendergast, and the troops forming the second detachment of the expeditionary force for service in Burmah, embarked to-day for Rangoon.