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Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 1092, 5 November 1883, Page 2

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[REUTER’S TELEGRAMS —-COPYRIGHT, 1;, J. ■ [Received Nov. 5, 11.66 a.m.] . : r ; The Rectorship 6f Edinburgh. ..* - r*. London, Sot. 3. Sir Stafford Northcote was, electedRectbr of the University of IMinbiurgh, '.rT vice the Earl, of §Roseberry.)i rHc> dtfmtD feated G. . O. Trevelyan; Chief s Secretary for Ireland, who- was r a r fcahdt- ! ’ date for the rectorship. Disastrous Fire.

A disastrous fire occurred to-day,lp Buchanan street, Glasgow, at the warehouse of Messrs Wylie, and Lockhead, paper stainers. -It raged_some_ time,—. and before the flames .could be' ex- i tinguisbed, the building] and the con- ; ,tents were completely destroyed- The / loss is set down at fully Laoo,ooo. The French Ministry. Pabis. Not. 3. M. Challemel Lacour, speaking to day at Cannes, announced that he had . resigned his position, in the French Ministry, and that M. Ferry, the Pre-

mier would, in the interim, take the portfolio of Foreign Minister; --He—* further stated that M, Ferry will next week ask the Chamber of Deputies to vote a credit of ten million francs to* . cover the expenses of the Tonqum ex- « ) pedition. The French in Madagascar.

A despatch from Tonquin has been received announcing that Admiral Courbet is now at Hanoi and is preparing to attack Bac Ninh without delay. The force will consist of 3,000, including artillery with 30 guns. Murder of Envoys. A report has reached here from Madagacar that the Malagasy Envoys who recently returned there from Europe, have been strangled. ' Arrest of a Nihilist. - Berlin, Nov, 3. ; < A Russian was arrested to-day at Dirschan, near Dantzig, Prussia, hav- r ing confessed he was in Germany, a Nihilist mission to murder Prince- «- Bismarck. , . ; ; : Shipping Items. London, Nor. 3. Arrived at Plymouth,. yesterday— >r > The Orient,, steamship, , from Melbourne (Sept. 22), with a cargo of frozen meat (per Merchant Shipping l& and Underwriters Association)., drived—Norman MacLeod, froraTjmahi SAug. 7) ; Gateside, from Lyttelton Aug. 4); Glenlora, from, A uckland, Aug. 17); Merope, from Bluff (Aug. I S')