BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 3108, 19 March 1883, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

By Electric Telegraph—Copyright [Eeuter’s Agency.] [Received March 19, 1888, 1 a m ] Anarchists' Paris, March 17. Further arrests have been made of leaders in the prevailing anarchists agitation in this city. It is expected that fresh gatherings of Socialists have been arranged for to-morrow, and extra precautionary measures are being taken by the authorities to prevent a disturbance.

The Outrages in LondonLondon, March 17. No clue has yet been obtained to the actual perpetrators of outrages at the offices of the Local Government Board and London “ Times.” A reward of £IOOO is offered for information leading to the arrest of the guilty parties. In case of any explosion, the military guards at the various Ministerial offices and at the Houses of Parliament have been doubled, and all necessary precautions have been taken to prevent further outrages. Walsh Released. Intelligence is to hand that John Walsh, who was arrested at Havre in France on the 2nd inst., on a charge of complicity in the Irish assassinations, has been released from custody. Transvaal AffairsMarch 18. In the House of Commons to-day, a debate took place upon the policy of the Government in regard to the treatment of the Transvaal natives by Boers. Mr W. E. Forster strongly condemned the measures proposed to bo taken with a view to putting a stop to the oppressive action of the Boers. Mr Gladstone made a lengthy defence of the Government policy, and the debate was then