TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS.
Foppens Comes Back.
I The Slaughter at Foochow. I
Further News of Gordon.
by electric telegraph— copyrights] [Reuter's Telegrams.] [Received August 28, at 1.10 p.m.J MELBOURNE, August 28. Poppens, the absconder, will be 1 conveyed back to Wellington by the j steamship Rotomahana, sailing to-day. 1
LONDON, August 26. General Lord Wolseley and Earl Northbrook, Secretary of State for India, start for Egypt on Sunday next.
HONG: KONG, August 26. | Reports to haud state that fully a j thousand Chinese were killed and j over three thousand wounded during the bombardment of the Foochow j Arsenal by the French fleet. f
CAIEO, August 26. j Major Kitchener reports from Don- \ gola that spies have informed him that General G-ordoii obtained a decisive victory over the rebels who surrounded Khartoum on the 11th inst., and that during the engagement two prominent rebel leaders were killed.
[Special to Press Association.] [Received August 28, at 1.30 p.m.! LONDON, August 27. It is reported in Shanghai that the 1 French have killed 80,000 Chinese in j Tonquin, losing several thousand men I themselves. Mr J. Cashel Hoey, C.M.G., Secre-
tary to the Agent-(x*2fi eral for Victoria, will attend the Postal Conference at Lisbon.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5092, 28 August 1884, Page 2
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