TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1347, 21 September 1886, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN [redtee’s telegrams— copyright.] THE AFGHAN FRONTIER. Caictjxta, September Ifv The British members of the Anglo*Russian Comission for the delimitation of the Afghan boundary, has started for India via Cabul, where the Ameer is preparing to receive them with considerable ceremony. CHOLERA. Rangoon, .September 18. Cholera has made its appearance among the British troops now in Burmah. TROUBLE IN IRELAND. London, September 18. Agrarian outaages are increasing in Kerry, Clare and Waterford. September JB.

0 News is to hand irom Galway that a “ party of police while escorting a numb er ,f of persons who had been arrested for e rioting at evictions, were attacked by a large mob. The police charged the as--6 sailants with fixed-bayonets, killed one (a woman), and seriously injured several : others. d *• THE NEW HEBRIDES. e is Sir J. F. Garrick, Agent-Genera! for n Queensland, is co-operating with the Agents-General of Victoria and New J 3 South Wales in urgingupon the Colonial 0 Office the necessity of immediate action i- for the protection of British intercsts in '■ the New Hebrides. ,8 e { LAND LAW AMENDMENT. In the House of Commons to-day e after further debate, the Supply Bill * passed through the first stages. The 6 debate on Mr Parnell’s Bill for the a Amendment of the Land Law in Iref land will commence on Monday next. [ ADMINISTRATION OF EGYPT. London, September 18. 5 In the House of Commons to-day 1 Lord Randolph Churchill announced ■ that Sir H. D. Wolff, the British Special | Commissioner in Egypt, had prepared , important porposals for the future Go- ; veroment of that country, and these 1 were now under the consideration of Ministers. Sir Jas. Fergusson, Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, in reply to a question as to the proposals of the Govern' ment in regard to Egypt, stated that it had been decided not to withdraw British troops from that country until the proposed reforms in administration had been executed. Sir James Fergusson further announced that Nubar Pasha, President of the Egyptian Council of Ministers, was coming to London at the request of the British Government to confer with Ministers as to the reforms to be in Egypt. TRANS CONTINENTAL LINE Bolckow, Vaughan and Co., of Middlesborough, have secured the contract to construct a railway from Strangways to Peak in South Australia (a continuation of the Trans-Continental line), at £ 7°oo per mile. CHOLERA. Buda-Pbsth, September 20. Cholera has broken out in this city.. Some deaths are already reported. A U S T RAL JAN.. THE NEW HEBRIDES. Melbourne, September 21. In a despatch to the Premier by thtf last mail. Sir Graham Berry, AgentGeneral in London, expresses himself sanguine that an amicable settlement of the New Hebrides question, and one acceptable to the colonies, will be arrived at between England and France. JUDICIAL. Mr Justice Higinbotham bas been appointed to suceed Sir W. F. Stawell as Chief Justice of Victoria,