Watching Cetewayo.
[Rktjtee's Teuegbams.] f Keoeived Sept. 7, at 1 p.m. 1
LONDON, Sept. 6.
The Times of to-day publishes a telegram from Hong KoDg stating that the French commander has informed the Ohinese Government that he will blockade the ports of Pak-hoi and Canton, unless the .Chinese troops now on the Tonquin frontier are at once withdrawn. [The port of Pak-hoi or Pei-hai is situated at the upper part of the Tonquin gulf/]
SHANGHAI, Sept. 6.
Sir Harry Parkes has arrived here from Japan to assnnfe the position of British Ambassador at Pekin.
News baa been received here that the First Battalion Welsh regiment (41st Foot), recently ordered to Zululand from Natal, will at once proceed to tho reserved territory, with the object of keeping a watoh upon Getewayo and his followers.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 4791, 7 September 1883, Page 3
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