TELEGRAPHIC.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5171, 28 November 1884, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC.

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i ________ Bechuanaland.

The Franco-Chinese War. j i [Retjteb's Telegrams.] CAPE TOWN, Nov. 25. Government is now endeavouring to effect a peaceful settlement of the disorder in Bechuanaland, and has offered the Boer raiders farms in the allotted territory of Stellaland. It is not yet known whether the offer will be accepted.

'PARIS, Nov. 25. In the Chamber of Deputies to-day M. Perry made a statement as to the present position of affairs in the East. He announced that the recent negotiations which had taken place with the Chinese Government had proved fruitless. The demands of China with regard to the basis upon which a settlement might be effected were exorbitant, and the French Government could only reply to those demands by asking the Chamber to vote fresh credits for carrying out the present operations on the Chinese coast until the conflict could be terminated wHh honour and satisfaction.

LONDON, Nov. 26. William Sproston Came, Liberal M.P. for Scarborough, has been reelected for that constituency, but by a reduced majority compared with that by which he was returned in 1880. Mr Thomas Sutherland has been elected to the vacant seat in the House of Commons for Greenock constituency.

[Special to Press Association.] LONDON, Nov. 27. Lord Derby has intimated to the Agents-G-eneral that the initiative in connection with Imperial Federation rests with the Colonies. The German Reichstag has adopted payment of members in spite of the opposition of Prince Bismarck. Commercial Intelligence. [Retjteb's Telegrams.] LONDON, Nov. 26. Consols have declined to lOOf. The market rate of discount has advauced to 4^ per cent, and is now j below the bank rate. New Zealand securities: — 5 per cent 10-40 loan, 104 f; 5 per cent 1889 loan, 103; 4§ per cent 1879---1904 loan, 104 f ; 4 per cent inscribed stock, lOOf. Colonial breadstuft's, ex store : — Adelaide wheat, 35s 6d ; New Zealand, 30s <3d to 335 • Adelaide flour, 23s 6d. Tallow — Australian average quality beef and mutton, 345. Wool— At to-day's auction, 9900 bales were catalogued. The market continued firm. The first series of next year's auctions will commence on Jan. 20. [Retjteb's Telegrams.] MELBOURNE, Nov. 27. The Hon James M'Bain has been

elected President of the Legislative Council, vice the late Sir William Mitchell, j The New Zealand Loan and Mer- • cantile Agency Company (Limited) ] held their usual weekly sale to-day, '. when a catalogue comprising 4080 J , bales was submitted. There was the \ j usual large attendance of buyers, and j ! competition for all lots was keen, | j 3500 bales being disposed of under ' : tho hammer, at very satisfactory I I rates. The market was very firm at * late prices. i

SYDNEY, Nov. 27. Parliament was prorogued to-day. The recess is expected to last about six months. Sailed — Tarawera, s.s., for Auckland.

ADELAIDE, Nov. 27. Arrived — Orient steamship John ! . Elder, with the Brindisi mails, dated ' i London, Oct. 24. . j

[Per Ph,eßß Associaion.] TRADING COMPANIES. AUCKLAND, Nov. 27. At the annual meeting of the Union Soap and Candle Company, no dividend was declared. -8476 was carried forward to new account. At a special meeting of the Auckland Timber Company, ifc was resolved to issue 12,000 new shares at £5 each. A boy watching bathers in the city baths, nephew of the bath- keeper, accidentally fell in and would have drowned but for a gentleman jumping in and rescuing him. James Sherry was remanded to Dunedin on a charge of wife desertion. A Kanaka named Turehu, a Kaipara gum-digger, attempted suicide by cutting his throat. It is anticipated . he will not survive.

FREETHOUGHT LECTURE. WELLINGTON, Nov. 27. Dr Hughes, M.A., of Sydney, who is on a Freethought lecturing tour through the Colonies, delivered a lecture on " Darwin and Evolution" last evening.

TITOKOWARU. HAWERA, Nov. 27. Titokowaru was in Hawera to-day, his first visit across the Waingongoro river since 1869, when he was driven back by Colonel Whitmore.

THE GOVERNOR. DUNEDIN, Nov. 27. Mr G. Cowie, General Manager of the Colonial Bank, has obtained leave of absence for six months, and will shortly leave on a visit to England and the Continent. The Governor visited the High schools to-day, and afterwards the show. This evening he openß the fair of all nations, which will be open for several days, in aid of the Combined Anglican Churches.

SIR JULIUS YOGEL. REMISSION OF DEATH SENTENCE. THE SOUTH SEA ISLANDS.

[FROM OUB OWN CORRESPONDENT.] WELLINGTON, Nov. 27. Sir Julius Yogel appears to be steadily regaining his health, and is looking more like himself than at any time since his return to New Zealand. He is taking carriage exercise, and was to-day present at the Island Bay racecourse. I understand he will not be able to leave for the Waiwera Hot Springs before the middle of December, so that his visit to Christchurch can hardly take place before the new year. The Hon J. A. Tole, Minister of Justice, was to leave for Auckland to-day, and will probably be absent for about ten days. Ministers propose to recommend to His Excellency that the sentence of imprisonment for life passed upon the man Smyth, found guilty of the murder of his wife some time ago, be remitted. The ncgociations arising out of the sanction of the House to the new mail contracts and subsidies are progressing towards completion, and the presence of Mr Coster in Wellington is all that is now necessary to clinch matters in reference to the direct service. That gentleman is expected here in the course of a few days. With respect to the South Sea Island service, there is a movement afoot among commercial men to orga- j nise a sort of holiday excursion trip ' to the Islands on the occasion of the j first trip under the subsidy arrangements, j and Government will be asked to grant : facilities to members of Chambers of Com- ' merce, &c, to enable them to visit the Islands at somebody else's expense, in j order that they may make themselves ! acquainted with the commercial prospects and general outlook in the South Seas ' from a New Zealand view-point. ;