TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1355, 30 September 1886, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN [rnjurr’n xrxeobams—coptbioht.} THE NEW HEBRIDES. Paris, September 29. In addressing a meeting at Toulouse yesterday M. de Freycioet, the French Premier, declared that the Government considered further colonial acquisitions on the part of France were not to be desired, but that they were determined to retain those which France already possessed. He expressed a hope that such a solution of the present difficulty with regard to the New Hebrides would be arrived at as would be in conformity with the dignity ot France. THE EASTERN CRISIS. Bona. September 28 General Kaulbers intimated to the Regency that if the meeting of the

a* awesegigg Grapd Assembly is not delayed, the Rnsslap Government will regard the decision of that body as invalid.

VICE REGAL DISPUTE. Capetown, September 28. Sir Hercules Robinscai, the Governor of Cape Colony, shortly proceeds to Mauritius for the purpose of arriving at a settlement on the dispute which has arisen in connection with the Government of that colony. EPISCOPAL London, September 29. It is announced that the Right Rev Thomas Carr, Bishop of Galway and Kilmacduagh, has been appointed to succeed the lata Dr Gould as Roman Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne. AQUATICS. Thiite,en scullers have entered for the international handicap to take place shortly at the Welsh Harp at Hinton.