"AGE" SPECIALS

Colonist, Volume XXVII, Issue 3925, 2 September 1884, Page 3

"AGE" SPECIALS

London, August'2s. M. Ferry, the Prime Minister of France, persists in his declaration that war has not yet been declared between France and China. Arrangements for an expedition to relieve General Gordon in Khartoum■ is progressing rapidly. It is expected that the expedition will reach Khartoum in the middle of January. ' The prices of Australian hops range from £4 15s to £6 per cwt. It is reported that Wallace Boss has forwarded a challenge to Beach to row him on the Thames, for £500 a-side, and the championship of the world. It is also reported that .Teemer, of New York, is about to challenge Hanlan to a contest. The report that the commander of a German gunboat forcibly removed the English flag at Pageida, at the west coast of Africa, and hoisted the German flag, needs confirmation. ■ It is rumored that Germany intends to propose a Congress of delegates 1 from the Great Powers, to confer on I the question of the Congo boundary as affecting Egypt. ■ ' l' Tawhaio, the1 Maori King, will not | return to, New Zealand with' the.chiefs '.who leave by the Orient steamer Potosi, but will remain for some time 'in England. - ■ , ■ The Austrian Government have decided to despatch a number of war ships to the Pacific, Africa, and other places, with a view to extending their colonial possessions, and carrying out a proposed system of colonisation. The' Pall Mall Gazette' in an article last night, on the recent contest between Beach and Hanlan, for the sculling championship of the world, -expressed doubts as to whether Hanlan was genuinely defeated. It is' reported from Canada, that 600 boatmen are enlisting for the expedition which is being formed to navigate the !':le. river and ro elieye General Gordon at Khartoum.