FOREIGN & COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 3264, 13 March 1885, Page 2

FOREIGN & COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

(Per Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. ) (Reuter's Agency.) (Received 1.20 p.m., March 12th.) London, Match 11. Mr Benjamin St. John Ackers, Conservative, has been elected to the House of Commons for West Gloucestershire, vice Colonel Robert Nigel Kingacote, C.8., Liberal, resigned. [Received 10.15 p.m., March 12th.] The Australian and New Zealand m»ile

via San Francisco, dated Auckland, Jan. 6th, were delivered to-day. Rio de Janeiro, March 11. The Shaw-Saville and Albion Company's steamship lonic from Wellington (Feb. 15th) left this morning for Plymouth. Her cargo of frozen meat is m good condition. (Special to the Press Association.) (Received 9.55 p.m., Maroh. 12th.) London, March 12. In replying to enquiries made by Mr T. W. Chesson, secretary of the Aborigines' Society, the Hon. J. B. Thurston, Colonial Secretary of Fiji, rebutted the statements m circulation accusing the colonists m Fiji of perpetrating acts of cruelty on the native inhabitants. Sir Saul Samuel will give a banquet to Lord Carrington, the new Governor of New South Wales. The Directors of the Australian Electric Light Company have refused to resign that office. ♦