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Star (Christchurch), Issue 1889, 23 March 1874, Page 2

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[Ebb AsaLO-AiTBTBALiAN Pbess Telegbaph Agbncy.l (Per s.s. Hero, via Auckland.) Singafobe, March 11. Captain Glover had retired to Ascera, and all the white troops were on the way to the coast. The last detachment will embark on 22nd Maroh. The King of Adanse leaves Ashantee, and becomes an ally of England. LATE SPECIAL TELEGRAMS. (From ihe Melbourne Argus of March 11.) London, via Galle, Feb. 4. The French Government are dismissing Republican mayors. Twelve French candidates have been elected for Alsace and Lorraine, to sit in the German Parliament. London, Feb. 4, Evening. Sir Seymour Fitzgerald (late Governor of Bombay) has been elected for Horsham. A letter of M. Rouher advises the Bonapartisfcs to respect, the septennate, as necessary for the recuperation of France. The steamer Firenze has been lost in the Red Sea. Feb. 5. The Duke of Argyle has written to Mr Disraeli, denying the statement of the latter that the Liberal Government had ever advised the Queen to recall the late Earl of Mayo. The Earl of Mayo may have apprehended it, but the Liberal Government never contemplated a recall. Feb. 6. Messrs Eastwick, Otway, and Wingfield have lost their seats. Mr Massey has been re-elected' for Tiverton. Mr Bernal Osborne hae been defeated. M!r Locke King, Mr Bouverie, and Mr James White have been defeated. The British exports for January amounted to £19i500,000, Bhowing a decrease of £875,000 i The imports were, £31,250,000, being an< inorease of £3,875,000. Two Republican candidates were elected yesterday for the departments of Pas de Calais and Haute Saone respectively. Obituary. — Mr Herman Merivale, permanent Under-Secretary? for the India Office ;. and General Sir Gaspard Le Marchant. Feb. 10. Colonel MacNeill has been appointed aide-de* ] camp, to the Duke of Cambridge, vice Clifford, [appointed Assistant-adjutant General. ; The German army estimates have been ! increased to fifteen million thalers. Later returns show that a Bonapartist was , elected for Pas de Calais. The Carliats have allowed the inhabitants of Bilboft eight days daring whioh to leave the town; afterwards the bombardment will com* mence. 1 A-S-- '■ ■' Feb. 12. The Court of Common Council, has voted £1000 towards the famine relief find. The steamer Viceroy, from Calcutta to London, . has grounded at Malta t ■ part of the cargo has been discharged uninjured . she was floated off,' reloaded, and proceeded on her voyage to Bombay. Feb. 14. A Mussulman riot has taken plaoe in Bom-. bay. Several Parsee houses were sacked, and 60 rioters arrested. Order has since been restored. Sir William Stirling Maxwell has beea elected for Perthshire. Pabis, Feb. 6. The French Cabinet has decided to prosecute those newspapers attacking or contesting the legality of Marshal M'Mahon's septennial power.