NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XVIII, Issue 1682, 30 March 1885, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

THE EXPECTED ANGLO-TURKISH ALLIANCE. DESIGNS OF LUXEMBURG. SERIOUS ASPECT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS. THE MILITIA AND RESERVES CALLED OUT. FRENCH REVERSES IN TONQUIN.

London - , March 26. Frequent interviews have taken place during the past few days between Earl Granville, Foreign Minister, Musurus Pasha, Turkish Ambassador, and Hassan Fobmy Pasha, the Turkish Special Envoy. The fact has given rise to rumors that an arrangement is being concluded for an Anglo-Turkish alliance in the event of an outbreak of hostilities between England and Russia. In the Chamber of Deputies, M. Waldcek Rousseau stated that the worst typo of reci<iivistes would ha scut to Cayenne. Sir Julius Benedict, the eminent musical composer, is dying. It is rumored that Prince Bismarck and M. Ferry have joint designs on Luxembourg, a neutral territory belonging to the King of the Netherlands. A message from her Majesty the Queen was read in Parliament to day announcing that in view of the grave emergency which had arisen in foreign affairs, it had been decided to call out the militia and the reserves, the latter of which forces would ha embodied for permanent service. Pauis, March 2G. Advices are to hand from General Negrior, commanding a portion of the French force in Tonquin, stating that he has sustained severe repulses vt the hands of the enemy, and that he has been obliged to retire to Dong Da, with the loss of 200 men. Melbourne, March 26. The convict Barnes, who in January last made a confession that he had murdered the late Mr J. P. Slack (who, it was behoved, had committed suicide), has undergone searching examination, and was to-day committed for trial. Brisbane, March 27. Obituary—Mr Justice Priug, Q.C., of the Supreme Court of this colony.