LATEST CABLEGRAMS

Inangahua Times, Volume IX, Issue 1477, 1 December 1884, Page 2

LATEST CABLEGRAMS

(PKK RiiUTICR'S A«KNt!Y. )

Received November 27, 10 p.m Sidney, 27

Sailed —This afternoon, Tarawera (or A;i<J;laiid. PiiliaiiKiit Wiis prcrog-JC-d to d.iy, the rtceos is expected to last about six months. Capktown, 25 The Government are now endeavoring to effect a peaceful settlement of disorder at Bechuaualand, and have offered the Boer raiders farms in tlie ur.iilloted territory of Stellalan .1. Jt is not yet known whether Uie olfev will be accepted. Paths, 25. In the Clamber of Deputies to-disy, M. Ferry mad a a statement a,s to the p'.'eseiH position of affairs in i.h« E-isi. He ftimouiiced tint tiie rocrnt negoti ations which had taken place with the Cliinose Govei'Miuont have provrd fruitless, as the. demands of China wilh regard to a GotLlemfiit nii.^ht b« anected were exhorbitant, and tiie French Govern m«*nt could only rep'y to tlio^<* deui'-iuds by asking the c'lamher to vote Fieivli credits for carrying • out the prespnt; o;>or;it ons on tlie Chinese coast until the present co.diet could be terminated vvuth honor a. id satisfaction. London, 26. Will, Spvnston Cune, L : ber.'il uiembei- for Scai-boro, l<as befi re-clficted for that constituency by a reduced mftjovitv eornpfji-prl v/^h tin'; by wliicl) he Was returned in HiCQ. Thomas Sutin-rlaid Jias bern reelected to the vacant seat, iv tho House of Commons for Gre-enock conati tuency. AIJELAIDK 27. Arrived •- Orient Steamship, John Elder, with the Biindibi mail?, dated Louilon, October 21.

Lonuok, 27. j The Hon. J:.mes Mac Bain ha 9 been elected President of the Legislative Council, vice the kite Su" 'William Mitcbel. Received November 28, 11.10 *.ra. Capetown 26. The Boer raiders in Bediunaland accepted the otfer <Ol»e Government, of farms in an nnaliOTted territory in Stellalaml and have agreed t-» evacuate Monhsios. Territory in Bechunalind will then be formally annexed oy Cape Colony. Lovdon. 27. The following has transpired regarding the Government scheme, of reorganisation of the Egyptian finance which will be snlumtted to the Powers i for approval. England to advance Kgypt under proper guarantee the sum^ of five million, of that amount a aiillioii! is to be spent on irrigation works, indemnity to sufii'iers hy the bombardment of Alox mdi iaj payable by preference bonds and interest in D lira Sauich 4 to 5 per cmt and unified 4 per cent debts be reduced to 3| per cent. Received November 29, 1.10 a.m. Syhxey 23. Another case of small-pox has oc-onn-pd liprf. and the whole family has been place! in quarantine. Melbourne 28. The Chief Justice, Mr W. F. Stftwell. has been grafted leave of absence for a year on. the ground of i.ll health. Lo^D n 28. G'-idstO'ift and Salisbury have de-';n:t-lv decided npoii th" pan of r«di=4tvibu f ir»n of seats, which it is understood will he accepted by Itoth Liberals and Conservatives, and the compromise on the Franchise question is thus complete. Paris. 27. A vote of t! Trivial crfil' f . M amount of 4W0.000 fra-.cs (£1.720, 000 sterlings) was passed by a large majority in the Chamber of D to- dft y for the prosecution of the war in Tonquin. Received November, 29 1.15 p.m. Loxmv. 23. Arrived at Plymouth, th a . st» nn^iip Iberia, from Melbourne, October 17. Pa- is, 29. The Chamber of Deputies hfis na^sed a resi'ntion requiring the F-iueo Ciiiese tva'-y, cmnlnde'l at Ti nt=iin in Miy la-~t, to be stri-jtly enforced by the G-.v/e nment.