Telegraphic News.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VI, Issue 527, 2 August 1881, Page 3

Telegraphic News.

LATEST EUROPEAN.

(Rbutkr's Telegrams.)

(Spkcial to The Mail.)

Cape Town, July 80.

Telegrams from Pretoria announce that Mr Hudson, the Colonial Secretary in the Transvaal, has been appointed to the position of British Resident, under the terms of the convention agreed upon between the Royal Commission and the BoetS. News is to hand from Zulu 1 And that* a claimant to the chieftainship with 3000 partisans is endeavoring to destroy the present arrangement for the Government of the country. John Dunn, the British ,_-- resident, has communicated with the Imperial Government, regarding the position of affairs, and only awaits permission to send a strong force to attack the insurgent aud his followers. Washington, July 30. r ' President Garfield continues to progress satisfactorily. He is now able to take solid food and his complete recovery i is believed to be assured. ** (From The Lyttelton Times.) London, July 29. The Irish Land Bill came up for the third reading in the House of Commons last night. A few of the extreme Tory members forced a division, which resulted in the Bill being read a third time, and passed by 220 to 14, amidst much enthusiasm. The House of Lords sat specially to receive the Bill iVom the House ot Commons, and at 11 p.m. read the measure a first time.