CABLEGRAMS

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 20 May 1881, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS

REUTER'S CABLEGRAMS. [from oub own cobrespondent.] London, May 17. MrGladston is again suffering from indisposition, and has been ordered bj bis physicians to take rest from'his duties in Parliament. Constantinople, May 17. Owing to representations made by the ambassadors of the Powers, the Porle has withdrawn the conditions it bad placed upon the proposed cession of territory to Greece, and the covenant - between the Greek and Turkish Governments in final settlement of the frontier difficulty will ii is now understood, be signed without delay. An enquiry has been held into the confessions made by the Jdonjestics of Icb» eragan Palace, that jthey were concerned in the murder of the Sultan, Abdul Aziz, in 1876. The evidence has led to the accusation of Midhat pasha (vrho was Grand Vizier at the time of tlio Sultan's death), of complicity in the crime. An Imperial decree has accordingly been issued deposing Midbat Pasha from the poitions be occupied as Governor of Smyrna, and ordering his immediate arrest: News bag, boweveF* since been received from Smyrna to the effect that Midhat Pasha has fled from the city. Later news has been received by the Government from Smyrna that Midhat Pasha has not, as at first stated, fled from the city, but has taken refuge in the French Consulate, an,d has appealed to the French and other foreign consuls for protection from arrest by the Turkish authorities. Sydney. May 18. The Rev James Chalmers has written a letter with reference to the murders which have recently been committed by nUives of New Guinna, recommending that the Queensland Government should •despatch a body of Native troopers to punish the perpetrators of these out« rages. ____________