CABLE NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1390, 27 November 1884, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

r—♦— —— Latest prom europe. IbKOTBK's WIMBAMS-OOPTBIOHT.I The Becidivistes Question. London .November 26. A Parliamentary Blue Book hss been issued to-day relating to the recidivate question, and the negotiations which have taken place thereon between the French* and English Governments. ■ Among the latest despatches is one by f Lord Lyons, British Minister at Pans, announcing that in the course of an -"interview which he had on October the iSth-withM. Ferry, the latter declared that the French Government was desirous of acting in a neighborly spirit with' regard to the Australasian coloand proposed that negotiations should be instituted for an extradition treaty applicable to criminals escaping from New Caledonia. In replying io this proposal Lord Derby stated that he deemed it inadequate to satisfy the demands of the colonies, and that no decision could be given until the colo- . oial authorities had been consulted, s He believed, however, that the colonies \ would prefer to pass enactments of £ their own to exclude criminalc from their shores. - - ~ The Position at Khartoum. Cairo, November 25. Telegrams to hand from Dongola 'state that the Mounted Infantry Corps left that town, and are now proceeding southward. Native spies who were sent to ascertain the strength and posi- t , tion of the Mahdi's army, arrived at ] Dongola with intelligence that Khar- 3 toum was surrounded by rebel troops, who numbered fully fifteen thousand I men. \ AUSTRALIAN. (bKDTEB's TBIKGEAMS—COPTBIOHT.) ShippingSydney, Yesterday. Arrived, this afternoon—Wakatipu, j from Wellington. * Parliamentary. Nearly the whole of the estimates have been considered and passed in the Legislative Assembly, and the Appropriation Bill was introduced today. '