TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1150, 18 September 1883, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

I ENGLISH. AND FOREIGN. London, Sept. 13. The Bank of New Zealand to-day reduced the rate of discount to 3f per cent. The barque Kilmeny, which left Wellington on the 6th May last for Newcastle, has been posted at Lloyd’s as missing. Sept. 14. i Mr Gladstone, who for some time past has been yatching on the Scotch coast, has sailed for Norway. : Doctor Connelly, who with his brother iwas arrested at Limerick on August ,22nd, charged with conspiring to murder, has been committed for trial. All the mortgages on Mr Parnell’s 'lrish estates have been paid off by public subscription. The French army has only met with doubtful success in Anam, and now awaits icinforcements. Disturbances have occurred in Woochang. Prince Bismarck is recovering. Sept, 15,

At the wool sales 256,000 bales have now been catalogued, of which 28,000 have been withdrawn. There was a better attendance at the last sales, and values have slightly improved.

An International Exhibition at the Crystal Palace next April is projected under the auspices of Mr Levy, but a larger scheme for an Exhibition at Kensington is also on foot.

After the recent fighting in Anam the French authorities beheaded thirty of the Black-flag prisoners. Ihe Times says if France prosecutes the Tonquin campaign she will probably embroil herself with Europe. Oorlachy Castle, near Forfar, has been burned. Sept. 17. The Marquis Tsiug and M. Waddington, who have been deputed by the French Cabinet, to conduct: negotiations with reference to the Franco-Ohinese difficulty in Tonquin, have arrived in England, and gone to Walmer Castle, ( the seat of Lord Granville, to confer; with the British Foreign Minister, with a view bf arriving at a settlement of the difficulty. Paris, Sept. 15. The latest reports from Tonquin claim that the French troops have carried the principal positions occupied by the Anamese at the point of, the bayonet. General Bouet has retired upon Hanoi, leaving garrisons in possession of the various forts recently captured. Vienna, Sept. 13,

The Communist agitation in Croatia is increasing- daily. A serious disturbance took place to-day at Jakoboritz, when the troops fired on the rioters, and killed fifteen, besides wounding many others, r ■ ! i Hong Kong, Sept. 14. News has been received that hostilities have been, resumed between the French troops and an Anamite force known as 1 Black-flags.’ Accounts to hand state that fighting, lasting, for fully, eight hours, recently took place at- Phoukai, The engagement was a very severe one, and resulted in a loss of 52, to the i French, The { Blackflags’are reported to have lost fully 500 men. Sept, 15. Sir George Bowen, Governor of this colony, has gone to Pekin, but nothing .has yet transpired as to the nature of his mission. ♦- • AUSTRALIAN CABLE. ' i . Brisbane, Sept. 14, The first estimate of £90,000 as the loss by the fire Rockhampton was an over-estimate, and it is, now : believed that £40,000 will cover the da*mage done. . A fresh case of smallpox has occurred among those in quarantine from the the steamer Duke of Westminster. I (ic person attacked was one of the stevedores of the vessel. The steamer Nowsherra has arrived here from London with 70 cases of measles and typhoid fever on boaid. She has been ordered into quarantine, Sydney, Sept. 15. Laycock has met with an accident by which his leg has been broken, and, he has consequently found it necessary to

terminate the negotiations which were , proceeding for a match with Hanlon, i Melbourne, Sept., 15. i The Agent-General in London tele-' graphs to Mr Service that the Colonial Office has replied to the joint letter of 1 the Colonial Agents-General on thie subject of the proposed annexation in, the Pacific. The reply is deemed unsatisfactory.' ' Earl Derby admits the care and ability displayed in the prepathe historical statement, which; .was referred to the.consideration of Sir iArthur Gordon. Earl Derby doubts (Whether so much alarm prevails in Australia regarding the claims of > Persian Powers, as the Agents-General (apprehend. Tonga lias boon long recognised as independent ; and , moreover, Prance, since 1875, has respected the Independence of the .New Hebrides, .though the importance of the possession .of the latter by any Foreign Power cannot be ignored.' Referring to the Solomon Islands, Earl Derby expressesan opinion that the Colonial Govern--merits have hardly considered the responsibility attaching to their annexation. The Imperial Government is, not satisfied that annexation is necessary or justifiable. Gis Lordship says ho has nothing to add concerning New Guinea, and concludes by stating that if the Colonial, Governments desire ; to bear the cost of the measures proposed in the Memorandum, and will cmier- iiud make a proposal concerning the other Islands not subject to Treaties, such a proposal will receive the attention of the Imperial Government.