LONDON.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4144, 3 November 1884, Page 3

LONDON.

October 29

Persistent reports have been received stating that Khartoum had fallen, but they lack official confirmation.

It has been decided that the bills accepted from the Oriental Bank at Mauritius before the stoppage of payment by the bank was known there will be paid in full. The Agents-General are urging Lord Derby to press the French Government for the exclusion of recidivistes from New Caledonia.

October 30

The half-yearly meeting of tho London Chartered Rank of Australia was held to-day. The profits amounted to £56,000. A dividend of C per cent, was declared, and £20,000 Avas carried to the reserve, making a total of £40,000 carried to that account on the year's transactions. The charter of the bank has been renewed for ten years.

Small-pox is raging at Morawai, a town a short distance below the fourth cataract of the Nile.

England intends to punish the murderers of Bethel, and to expel all marauders from Bechuanaland.

October 31. A meeting will be held on Monday next to test the validity of certain decisions made by tho liquitator in the Oriental Bank estate.

The Chinese have made repeated attacks on tlie French positions a.t Tuengrayen, but were repulsed en each occasion.

Sir Moses Montefiore, whose centenary has just been celebrated, is atjjresentsuffering from bronchial affection, which is causing his friends some anxiety.