ENGLISH AND FOREIGN CABLE.

Timaru Herald, Volume XL, Issue 2943, 28 February 1884, Page 3

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN CABLE.

(Per Electric Teijbq:iaph. —Copybioht. ) [Rbutkr's Aoesot.] (Beeoived I p.m., Fob. 27th.] London, Feb. 26. "The Bight Hon. Sir H. B. W. Brand, ex-Speaker of tho House of Commons, has been raised to the peerage under the title of Viscount Hampden. . The death is announced of the Bight Hon. Thoa. Milner Gibson, formerly a well-known politician and member of the Paimerston and Russell administration 1855-1865, aged 77. The consignment of frozen mutton (6548 carcases) ex steamship Iberia, from Sydney, has been examined and found m good condition. [Received 2.40 p.m., Feb. 27th.1 In tho House of Commons to-day Mr A. W. Peel, the Liberal M.P. for Warwick, was elected Speaker unopposed. A credit for half a million sterling, to cover the expenses of the British expedition to the Soudan, it shortly to be asked for by Government, m the Bouse of Commons. Mo olue to the perptitrators of the explosion which occurred last night at the Victoria Railway Station has yet been discovered. The police have m their possession, howtiver, the Gladstone bag which was burst opelj by the explosion of dynamite, and found m tho wrecked cloakroom. (Sfflcui to Priss Association.) LoNiiON, Feb. 26. Colonel Coetlotfon, with two thousand men of the Khartoun garrison, is on hit way to Berber. ' The Queen will visit Germany m April. ' Bir Julias Yogel will leave for New Zealand m the Tongtxiro. Sir Arthur Blyth denies that he has any intention of standing for Falmooth at the next genetid election, as has been reported. ■ ■• ■'■ Sir Henry Parkes, ipeaking at Glasgow, said that New Smith Wales would be able to render valuable asiisUtice to the Mother Country m the evout of war. Feb. 26. , The Mahdi is topotted to be tampering with tba Bftuaulnuni of Indie, and the

Nubian troops iii Sonakim threaten to join the rebels. — : ♦_